APR 12 1900 
BROCE DINGS 
OF THE 
Aova Scotian Ensttrtute of Science. 
SESSION OF 1898-99. 
ANNUAL Business MEETING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 14th March, 1898. 
The Presrpent, Mr. A. McKay, in the chair. 
The Presmpent addressed the Institute, as follows :— 
GENTLEMEN,—It is an educational axiom of the first importance that 
in presenting a new subject for study it should in some vital way be 
correlated with ideas already in the mind of the student. 
Guided by this principle, I should at the beginning of another year’s 
work of this Institute, review briefly the progress made during the past 
year. This was in many respects most unsatisfactory. Never before 
did we have so much difficulty in securing papers for our ordinary 
meetings. We had in all thirteen communications, of which eleven were 
papers, three read by title. Six of these papers gave the results of 
investigations, conducted chiefly by two Dalhousie students in a physico- 
chemical field, regarding the behavior of ions under certain conditions. 
There were two papers relating to Geology, one to Natural History, 
one to Ethnology, one to Botany. In addition, Mr. Twining exhibited 
a model of a Pivot-boat, and explained its working, and Dr. MacGregor 
gave an address on Laboratory Methods. 
It may, however, be found that the sum total of scientific knowledge 
has been increased somewhat by those original researches which were 
conducted in Dalhousie College, and that the printed results may be 
utilized by other investigators. Dr. Bailey’s very interesting papers on 
Proc. & TRANS. N. S. Inst. Scr, VOL. X. PrRoc.—A. 
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