FER 7 1898 
raver EDINGS 
OF THE 
Aova Scotian Enstitute of Science. 
SESSION OF. 1896=7. 
ANNUAL Business ME&erINnc. 
Legislative Cowncil Chamber, Halifax, 9th November, 18%. 
The Presipent, Dr. GILPIN, in the chair. 
The Presipent addressed the Institute as follows :— 
GENTLEMEN,—I have much pleasure in meeting you to-night. I 
present myself your representative to mark the close of another year of 
the existence df the Institute, and to inaugurate a new session. 
In one sense, I may claim to be numbered among the oldest of those 
who have been interested in this Society. Although it is nearly a 
quarter of a century since I was allowed to read my first paper before 
you, there are a number of you who have been for a much longer period 
members. ‘ 
I remember, however, being present and watching as a boy the 
initiatory meeting of the Institute, being the more interested as the 
late Dr. Gilpin, who read the first paper in our proceedings, took an 
active part. Almost all the original members have now ceased from 
work, but their record remains. 
From its commencement, the Institute members have ranged over 
all the fields of science open to observers in this Province, and have 
recorded their opinions and deductions according to the lights of their 
days. Their arguments may now be displaced or amended in the focts 
of the science of to-day or to-morrow ; the facts they have accumulated 
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