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fornia, with descriptions of New Species/' by Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., 

 Pasadena, Cal. 



" Some Remarks on the Phylogeny of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera," 

 by G. W. Kirkaldy, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 



"A Key to the North American Species of Aeshna found North 

 of Mexico," by E. M. Walker, Toronto. 



" Notes on the Coccinellidœ," by Thos. L. Casey, Washington, D.C. 



IX. — Report of the Nova Scoiiaii Institute of Science, Halifax, to 



the Royal Society of Canada through Dr. Henry M. Ami, 



F.R.S.C, delegate. 



The Nova Scotian Institute of Science, begs to present the following 

 report on its proceedings during its forty-seventh annual session (1908- 

 '09). 



The following officers were elected for the year 1908-'09 : — 



President — Prof. Ebenezer MacKay, Pli.T)., ex-offido. P.P. M.S. 



1st Vice-President — Prof. J. Edmund Woodman, D.Sc. 



2nd Vice-President — Watson L. Bishop. 



Treasurer — Maynard Bowman, B.A. 



Corresponding Secretary — A. H. MacKay, LL.D., F.E.S.C. 



Recording Secretary — Harry Piers. 



Librarian — Harry Piers. 



Other members of Council- — Alexander McKay; Prof. F. H. Sexton; 

 B.Sc; H. W. Johnston, CE.; Prof. A. S. Mackenzie, Ph.D.; Philip 

 A. Freeman: F. W. W. Doane, CE.: and A. L. McCallum, B.Sc. 



Auditors — R. McColl, CE.; and William McKerron. 



The growth of the Institute Library has continued in a gratifying 

 manner. During the year 1908, 1,697 books and pamphlets were received. 

 The total number of books and pamphlets received for the year by the 

 Provincial Science Library, with which that of the Institute is incor- 

 porated, was 3,761. The total number of books and pamphlets in the 

 Provincial Science Library on the 31st December '1908, was 36,784. 

 Of these, the number belonging to the Science Library proper was 

 7,951; and the number belonging to the Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Science was 28,833. These figures show that the Provincial Science 

 Library is, numerically, the largest Library at present in Nova Scotia. 

 The one which approaches nearest to it, is the Legislative Library of 

 Nova Scotia, which, at the end of 1907, had a total of about 29,310 books 

 and pamphlets, which includes the Akins Library. The Science Library 

 is free to any person in Nova Scotia, and it is the only Nbva Scotian 

 Library that is thus free to all residents of the Province. 



