lx PROCEEDINGS. 
FourtH Orpinary MEETING. 
City Council Chamber, Halifax, 18th February, 1901. 
The PrReEsIDENT in the chair. 
It was announced that Pror. Evererr W. Sawyer, of Acadia College, 
Wolfville, and Pror. F. C. Sears, Director of the N. S. School of 
Horticulture, Wolfville, had been elected associate-members. 
A communication was read by the Recorpine Secretary, from the 
EnTomoLocicaL Society or Beneium, announcing the death of its 
Honorary President, the Baron pz Setys-Lonecuamps. 
On motion it was resolved that the N. 8. Institute of Science express 
its deep sympathy with the Entomological Society of Belgium in con- 
nection with the irreparable loss which the society has sustained through 
the death of its Honorary President, the Baron de S :lys-Longchamps. 
A communication was also read from the ZoonocicaL-BoraNicaL 
Society or VigNNAa announcing the celebration of its fiftieth anni- 
versaly. 
On motion it was resolved that the N. S. Institute of Science offer 
its cordial congratulations to the Zoologicai-Botanical Society of Vienna, 
on the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary and the completion of fifty 
years of fruitful work, and express the hope that the society’s efforts for 
the advancement of science may, in the future, as in the past, be crowned 
with success. 
Pror. H. W. Ssurg, B. Se., of the Provincial Agricultural School, 
read two papers, entitled, (1) ‘‘ Rotation of Leguminous Crops,” and (2) 
“The Preservation and Use of the Tops of Turnips and other Root 
Crops.” 
The subjects were discussed by Hon. T. R. Brack, Da. MacKay, 
Mr. G. MarsHatt, and others. 
A vote of thanks was presented to Pror. Smita for his communica- 
tions. 
Owing to the lateness of the hour, the reading of Mr. Poots’s paper 
on “ Stigmaria Structure,” and of Dr. MacKay’s ‘‘ Note on Gravel taken 
by the mushroom-anchor of the ‘ Mackay-Bennett,’” were pestponed. 
