Ixxxvill PROCEEDINGS. 
Turrp OrDINARY MEETING. 
Legislative Cowncil Chamber, Halifax, 11th January, 1897. 
The First Vice-President, Mr. McKay, in the chair. 
The Secretary announced that Proressor E. E. Prince, Commis- 
sioner and General Inspector of Fisheries for Canada, Ottawa, had been 
elected a Corresponding Member. 
Proressor J. G. MacGrecor, D. Sc., presented a paper ‘On the 
Relations of the Physical Properties of Solutions to their State of 
Ionization,” second part. (See Transactions, p. 219). 
The subject was discussed by Prorgessor E. MacKay and Mr. J. 
ForBEs. 
FourtH Orprnary MEETING. 
Provincial Museum, Halifax, 8th February, 1897. 
The Second Vice-President, Dr. MacKay, in the chair. 
Rev. Brorner Perser, of La Salle Academy, exhibited a number of 
Dried Plants, which he had collected in the vicinity of Halifax, and 
made remarks thereon. 
In the absence of the author, a paper entitled, ‘* Measurements of 
two Beothuk Skulls,” by W. H. Prest, Esq., was read by the 
Secretary :— 
“Having been asked to give the measurements of two Beothuk 
skulls taken while at the Museum at St. John’s, Newfoundland, I 
submit the following : 
In order to more fully explain these measurements. I may say that 
the term brachy-cephalic, or round-headed, is used to denote skull forms 
where the proportion of the breadth to the length is as 80 and upwards 
to100. The term dolicho-cephalic, or long-headed, denotes proportions of 
from 75 and downward to 100. All intermediate proportions are 
termed meso-cephalic. 
