FEB 12 1897 
PROG hE DINGS 
OF THE 
Alova Scotian Enstitute of Setence. 
SESSION OF 1895-6. 
AnnuAL Bustness MEETING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 11th November, 1895. 
The first Vice-PrESIDENT, ALEXANDER McKay, Esq., in the chair. 
On opening the meeting the chairman announced to the Institute 
the sudden death of its late President, Pror. Grorar Lawson, 
Ph. D., Lu. D., which had occurred on the previous evening at his 
residence in Halifax. 
After reference had been made by the chairman and other members 
of the Institute to the great loss which the Institute had sustained, it 
was unanimously resolved that the Institute, as a body, should attend the 
funeral of its late President. 
Jt was further unanimously resolved that, as a mark of respect to 
the late President, the Annual Meeting should be adjourned until the 
18th of November. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 18th November, 1895. 
ALEXANDER McKay, Esq., Vicz-PREsIDENtT, in the chair. 
Pror. J. G. MacGrecor, CorrespoNDING SecreETARY, addressed the 
Institute as follows : 
Mr. Vice-President,—It is my duty, on this occasion, to bring before 
the Institute some account of the hfe and work of members deceased 
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