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but a sorrowful task still awaits me, viz., to notice that, during 
the past year, we have had to lament the decease of three of our 
most zealous and useful members, and very good friends. You 
will find obituary notices of them in the published Transactions. 
It is again a painful duty imposed upon me to mention a fourth 
bereavement i in the death of Dr. How, Professor of Chemistry, 
King’s College, Windsor (not latterly a member of our Institute, 
but a frequent contributor to its Transactions), which took place 
at Windsor on the 27th September last. Dr. How was an able 
scientist, and had made some interesting mineralogical discover- 
ies in Nova Scotia. *He filled the professorial chair with credit 
to himself and the University, and with much advantage to the 
students, by whom he will be long remembered, and his death 
regretted. His loss must Ps deeply felt by the Institution at 
Windsor, which he adorned by his talents and amenities ; and it 
will not be easy to fill a chair, the duties of which require in an 
erminent degree high qualifications and systematic order. 
I have now, amid avocations which leave me little leisure for 
work like this, endeavored (imperfectly enough, I know) to per- 
form a duty prescribed by the rules of the Institute. I fear I 
have wearied you with an address which, like many others of 
the kind, on similar occasions, has not the merit of propounding 
stariling ee bornones or original theories. It may, however, serve 
to show that we are in ea wmnest, and if it has the slightest effect 
in stimulating pursuits and studies within our reach, it will fulfil 
my highest expectations. I would have liked to he able to tall 
you that our people take as much interest in n 
comparatively, of course —as the people of Eula do in ae 
work of the British Association, or that the knowledge of Nova 
Scotia we have conveyed, which is by no means unimportant, is 
as highly appreciated among ourselves in this our own home, as 
it seems to be in other countries. This desire, however, is ee 
mature, and ntany of us may not await the better time comin 
Instead, we must, I suppose, rest content with being the pioneers 
of science in Nova Scotia, and leave it to future generations to 
enter into and profit by our gratuitous and disinterested labors. 
