PROCEEDINGS. 3 
ORDINARY MEETING, 17th March. 
RoseRT Morrow, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chatr. 
INTER ALIA, 
A letter was read from the Royal Society of Canada announcing the second 
session to be held at Ottawa, on the 2lst day of May next, and requesting the 
titles and abstracts of papers to be sent in before the 15th. 
Simon D. Macpona.p, F. G.S., read a paper ‘* On Sable Island.” 
Prof. Lawson, Ph.D., Lu. D., read a paper ‘‘ O# New and Rare Plants of 
Nova Scotia and Ferns of Bermuda.” 

SPRCIAL MEETING, 22nd March. 
RoBeRT Mornow, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
ORDINARY MEETING, 9th April. 
RopeRT Morrow, Esq., Vece-President, in the Chair. 
INTER ALIA. 
Epwin Giipin, Esq., A. M., read a paper “On the Analysis of a Pictou 
Coal Seam.” 
Prof. MACGREGOR read a paper “ On the Resistance to the Passage of the 
Electric Current between amalgamated Zine Electrodes and weak solutions of 
Zinc Sulphate.” 

ORDINARY MEETING, 14th May. 
JOHN SoMERS, M. D., President, in the Chair. 
Prof. HonryMan, D.C.L., being absent, his paper ‘‘ On the Geology of Nova 
Scotia,—Halifax and Colchester Counties. Part 1,” was read by the Secretary. 
The PRESIDENT read a paper ‘“‘On some additions to the Flora of Nove 
Scotia.” 
A. McKAY, Secretary. 
