246 PROCEEDINGS. 
ORDINARY MEETING, Provincial Museum, Noy: 9, i883. 
Dr. Somers, President in the Char’. 
Inter alta. 
Rey. Rovert Laine was proposed a member. 
A Paper was read by Dr. HoNEYMAN, “ Additional notes on Glacial Action at 
Bedford Basin, Halifax Harbour and North West Arm.” 
Dr. SOMERS read a paper; ‘ On New and Rare Plants.” 
ORDINARY MEETING; Provincial Museum, Jan’y., 11, 1886. 
Dr. Somers, President; in the Chair. 
Inter aha. 
Reported that Rev. Ropert Larne had been duly elected by the Council. 
Dr. MacGreGcor read a paper, ‘‘On the relative bulk of certain aqueus solu- 
tions and their constituent water.” 
Simon D, Macpona.p, F. G.S.; read a paper ‘ On Sable Island, its probable 
origin and submergence.” 
ORDINARY MEETING, Provincial Museum, March 8, 1886. 
J. J. Fox, Esq., was called to the Chair. Fi 
Inter alia. 
Pror. LAWson read and commented on a Collection of Plants, collected in 
the vicinity of Truro last summer, by G. G, CAMPBELL, B. Se. 
Dr. SoMERS read a paper “ On Nova Scotian Fangi.” 
An interesting collection of specimens from a battle-field in British Columbia, 
contributed to the Museum by H. R. RnyNnouns, was exhibited and examined. 
The collection consisted of portions of human skulls and teeth, with stone arrow 
heads and stone chisel. A vote of thanks was passed to the donor for his inter- 
esting communication which the specimens illustrated. 
ORDINARY MEETING, Provincial Museum, April 12, 1886. 
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Dr. Somers, President, in the Chair. 
inter alia. 
A letter from the Hon. Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada, in reference 
to the appointment of a delegate, was submitted and referred to the Council. 
At the same time it was agreed to take up the matter at next ordinary meeting. 
E. Grvpin then read a paper “On the Carboniferous Formation of Cape 
Breton.” : 
Dr. HoNEYMAN also read a paper, “ Notes of a Polariscopic Examination of 
Orystalline Rocks of Antigonish County.” 

