CXLVIII THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



First Vice-President — President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, 

 Ph.D., F.R.S.C. 



Second Vice-President — Alexander Howard MacKay, LL.D., 

 F.R.S.C. 



Treasurer — Maynard Bowman, B.A. 



Corresponding Secretary — Prof. Ebenezer MacKay, Ph.D. 



Recording Secretary and Librarian — Harry Piers. 



Councillors without office — Prof. Clarence L. Moore, M.A., 

 F.R.S.C; Alexander McKay, M.A.; Prof. David Fraser Harris, M-D-, 

 C.N., D.Sc, F.R.S.E.; Donald Sutherland Mcintosh, B.A., M.Sc; 

 Carleton Bell Nickerson, M.A.; Prof. Howard Logan Bronson, Ph.D.; 

 and William Harrop Hattie, M.D. 



Auditors — Watson Lindley Bishop and William McKerron. 



Meetings were held from 8th October, 1913, to 18th May, 1914, 

 at which the following papers were presented : — 



1. "Presidential Address: (a) deceased members, (b) problems 

 in biochemistry," by Donald M. Ferguson, F.C.S. 



2. "On the existence of a Reducing Endo-enzyme in Animal 

 Tissues," by Prof. D. Fraser Harris, M.D., CM., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



3. "Senecio jacobaea and its parasite Callimorpha jacobaea: 

 the Ragwort and the Cinnabar Moth," by Henry S. Poole, D.Sc, 

 F.R.S.C. With additional notes on the subject, by A. H. MacKay, 

 LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



4. "Notes on the Analysis of 'Ironstone' from the King's Quarry, 

 North West Arm, Halifax," by H. B. Vickery. 



5. "The Geology of a Portion of Shelburne County, South Western 

 Nova Scotia," by Sidney Powers. 



6. "Additional notes on 'Integral Atomic Weights,' " by Frank 

 W. Dodd, CE. 



7. "On the Electrical Properties of Acetic Acid in the Solid and 

 Liquid Phases," by John H. L. Johnstone, B.Sc 



8. "Coloured Thinking," by Prof. D. Fraser Harris, M.D., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S.E. 



9. "Analyses of Nova Scotian Soils," by Prof. L. C Harlow, B.Sc. 



10. "Phenological Observations in Nova Scotia, 1913," by A. 

 H. MacKay, LL.D., F.R.S.C 



During the year 1913, the Library and Institute received 1,766 

 books and pamphlets. The total number received in the same year 

 by the Provincial Science Library, with which that of the Society is 

 incorporated, was 2,928. The total number of books and pamphlets 

 in the Science Library on 31st December, 1913, was 51,810, of which 

 37,614 (or 72 per cent) belong to the Institute. 



