ORDINARY MEETINGS. XV 
A paper by T. C. Weston, Esq., F. G.S. A., entitled, ‘‘ Notes on 
Concretions found in Canadian Rocks,” was read by the CorrESPONDING 
Secretary. (See Transactions, p. 1.) 
On motion of Dr. MacGrecor and Mr. Forbes, it was 
ftesolved, That the Institute express its deep appreciation of the 
great services which Mr. ALEXANDER McKay has rendered it in his dis- 
charge of the duties of Recording Secretary for a period of fourteen 
years ; and that asa mark of its appreciation of his services, the Insti- 
tute elect Mr. McKay to Life-membership, without payment of the 
usual fee. 
FourtH Orpinary MEETING. 
Church of England Institute, Halifax, 11th February, 1895. 
ALEXANDER McKay, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Dr. Giupin, Inspector of Mines, read a paper entitled, ‘The Iron 
Ores of Nictaux, N. S., and Notes on Steel-making in Nova Scotia.” 
(See Transactions, p. 10.) 
In the discussion which followed Dr. A. H. MacKay gave a popular 
description of this region which he illustrated by means of a large out- 
line map. Starting from the Railway Junction of Middleton and 
following the railway across the Annapolis Valley for four miles in a 
southerly direction, over the sand and gravel which rest on Triassic beds, 
one arrives at the foot of the South Mountain range, where the Nictaux 
River in its course nearly magnetic north, debouches from its rocky 
gorge channelled through the Highlands. From Nictaux Falls station 
the railway enters into the gorge, creeping higher and higher along its 
western side. Just at the foot of the hills upper silurian slates appear to 
show themselves, and the railway cuts every now and then great dykes 
of igneous rock which at various timesrent the slates in numerous fissures. 
Two miles up from the falls, in what appear to be of lower Devonian 
age, the river and railway line at Cleveland cut at an oblique angle, 
approximately vertical strata of magnetic iron ores generally highly 
siliceous. One mile further up, and the road passes through a great 
intrusive granite belt about a mile in width. Then comes a great rock 
excavation through a bluff of very hard slates, when the course is again 
in the granite and tending south-westerly to Alpena Station, six miles 
above the Falls. During the two weeks he was in this district, he 
