APR 20 1899 
PReCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Nova Scotian Enstitute of Science. 
SESSION OF 1897-98. 
AnnuaL Bustness MEETING 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 8th November, 1897. 
The Presrpent, Dr. Gipry, in the chair :— 
The Presipenr addressed the Institute, as follows :— 
“‘ GEN have much pleasure ‘in opening another session of 
the Institute, and trust that our meetings will be successful and our 
papers more numerous. We have held our own in numbers, and have 
maintained our position among our sister societies. 
The Institute had recently to mourn the removal, by death, of our 
friend and President, Dr. Lawson, and we have now to deplore the loss 
from our ranks of Rev. Dr. Patterson. It is true that he was not as 
intimately and directly connected with our work as Dr. Lawson. This, 
however, was our loss, for he had eminently the Academician mind, and, 
had his other pursuits permitted, his services to the Institute would have 
been both great and distinguished. His thirst after knowledge, his 
assiduity in collecting facts, his faculty of assimilation, would, if directed 
specially to any of the objects of the Institute, have given him a most 
cherished position among us. 
George Patterson was born in Pictou, April 30th, 1824, and, on his 
mother’s side, was a grandson of the Reverend Doctor McGregor, a name 
famous in the annals of Presbyterianism in Pictou County. What 
Pictou County in particular, and generally the Province, owe him has 
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