APPENDIX F CLXXXVII 



It is proposed to move the Library to the new Technical College 

 at Halifax on the completion of that building during the coming 

 summer. A stack-room has been provided there, 48 x 41, with an 

 adjoining reading room. 



The Proceedings and Transactions, vol. XI, parts 3 and 4, and 

 vol. XII, part 1, have been distributed together ; and part 2 of the latter 

 volume is now in press. 



Meetings were held from October, 1908, to April, 1909, at which 

 the following papers were communicated : — 



1. — " Presidential address," by Prof. Ebenezer MacKay, Ph.D. 



2. — " Eecent iron and limestone investigations in Nova Scotia," by 

 Prof. J. Edmund Woodman, D.Sc. 



3. — " On the occurrence of scheelite in Nova Scotia," by A. L. 

 McCallum, B.Sc. 



4. — " On some commonly accepted axioms in celestial mechanics," 

 by Kenneth Mcintosh. 



5. — " Some Nova Scotian aquatic fungi," by Clarence L. Moore, 

 M.A. 



6. — " Catalogue of butterflies and moths, mostly collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Halifax and Digby, N.S.," by Joseph Perrin and 

 John Eussell. 



7. — " Water purification by ozone," by Thomas J. McKavanagh. 



8. — " Geological conditions affecting the water-supply of Halifax," 

 by H. Cavanagh and D. Stairs. 



9. — "Weathering of structural stones in Halifax," by C. J. Mac- 

 Kenzie and G, L. Crichton. 



10. — " Cement testing in the engineering laboratories of Dalhousie 

 College," by H. W. Flemming. 



11. — " Glacial phenomena at Grand Lake, Cape Breton County," 

 by W. S. Brodie, B.A. 



12. — " The influence of aluminium salts on the estimation of sul- 

 phates," by H. Jermain M. Creighton, M.A. 



Halifax, Nova Scotia, 20th May, 1909. 



X. — Prom The Natiwal History Society of New Brunswick, 

 through W. J. Wilson, Ph.B., delegate. 



The Natural History Society of New Brunswick was founded in 

 1863, and grew out of the " Steinhammer Club," a field club of geolo- 

 gists of whom the moving spirits were the late Professor Charles Fred 

 Hartt and Dr. Geo. P. Matthew. The Society has thus had an exist- 



Proc. 1908. 15. 



