ORDINARY MEETINGS. X¢i 
SixtH OrpiInaRyY MEETING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 12th April, 1897. 
The PresiDEnt in the chair. 
A communication was read from the Royal Society of London 
announcing that at a recent meeting of that body it had been unani- 
mously resolved that a fund, to be called the Victoria Research Fund, 
be established, to be administered by representatives of the various 
scientific societies, for the encouragement of research in all branches of 
science. The Society wished to know if the scheme met with the 
approval of the Institute. 
Resolved, That this Institute, having heard the communication of the 
22nd February, addressed to its President by the President of the Royal 
Society of London, in reference to the proposal to establish a Research 
Fund in commemoratian of the present sixtieth year of the reign of 
Her Gracious Majesty the Queen, express its cordial approval of the 
proposal. 
Resolved, further, That while the Institute is of opinion that no 
large contribution to the propose! fund can be expected from the 
Province of Nova Scotia, whose men of science are few, and whose 
industries have not yet reached the stage in which the advantages of 
scientific research become manifest, the Institute will be glad to co-operate 
with other scientific societies in Canada in bringing the claims of the 
proposed fund to the notice both of their members and of other citizens 
who may be expected to become contributors. 
