ORDINARY MEETINGS. Ixxxvil 
It was resolved that the thanks of the Institute be conveyed to the 
Hon. R. Boaxk for his courtesy in permitting the use of the Legislative 
Council Chamber for the meetings of the Society. Also resolved that 
the thanks of the Institute be presented to the Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, for his courtesy in granting the 
Institute the privileges of the Department of International Exchanges 
of the Institution. 
First Orpinary MEertTING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 9th November, 1896. 
The Presipent in the chair. 
Proressor J. G. MacGrecor, D. Sc., read a paper “ On the Relation 
of the Physical Properties of Aqueous Solutions to their State of 
Jonization.” (See Transactions, p. 219). 
The paper was discussed by Mr. A. McKay, Dr. A. H. MacKay, 
and others. 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 14th December, 1896, 
The PresipEnv? in the chair. 
It was announced that the following gentlemen had been elected 
members of the Society :—Lre Russext, Ese., B. Sc., Normal School, 
Truro; T. C. McKay, Esq., B. A., Dartmouth ; Rev. Brorner Perer, 
La Salle Academy, Halifax; CHaries Twinine, Esq, Halifax; and 
C. C. James, Esq., Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Toronto. 
Proressor E. E. Prince, Commissioner and General Inspector of 
’ 
Fisheries for Canada, delivered a lecture on ‘‘ Recent Discoveries regard- 
ing the Eggs and Young of Fishes.” 
number of lantern views. 
The lecture was illustrated by a 
Remarks upon the subject were made by Drs. Rem, MacKay, 
Somers, and Murpuy, and also by the Chief Game Commissioner, C, S. 
Harrineton, Esa, Q. C. 
