MAR 19 1901 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Nova Scotian Institute of Serene. 
SESSION OF 1899-1900. 
ANNUAL Business MEETING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 20th November, 1899. 
The Presipent, ALEXANDER McKay, Esgq., in the chair. 
The PresIpENT addressed the Institute, as follows :— 
GENTLEMEN,—A review of the last year’s work of this Institute 
may well be very brief. Meetings were held at the usual times, 
except in February, on account of a severe storm. ‘Twelve papers 
were read and discussed, and another was read by title. These cover a 
wide range of subjects: Social science, geology, sanitary science, 
mineralogy, medicine, chemistry and botany, zoology and physics. 
Prof. Davidson, of the University of New Brunswick, opens up a 
field new to the Institute by a valuable paper ‘‘On Statistics and 
Expenditure in Canada.” In this and related studies there are splendid 
opportunities for unlimited research and the display of the highest 
order of talents. A paper by Prof. Russell on ‘School Room Air” 
will be of much interest and value to teachers. The tests recom- 
mended are inexpensive, and such as can be generally used. Teachers 
who have once made these tests will ever afterwards be more alive to 
the almost criminal carelessness of those who allow children to occupy 
badly-ventilated school rooms. Dr. A. P. Reid also deserves the 
Proc. & TRANS. N- S. INST: Scr., Vor. X. Proc.—D. 
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