Ixxxiv PROCEEDINGS. 
ANNUAL Business MEETING. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 9th December, 1901. 
The Presipenr, Dr. A. H. MacKay, in the chair. 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDREsS.—By A. H. MacKay, LL. D., &¢ 
Gentlemen,—Since our last annual meeting we have lost some of 
our members. It is a tribute to the constitution of things which every 
human organization has to pay. 
OBITUARIES. 
On the 5th of March, Dr. James Ratchford DeWolfe, who was a 
member from the first session of the Institute in 1863, and who bore 
his share in its administration as an officer, died in his 82nd _ year. 
He was the son of the Hon. T. A. S. DeWolfe, at one time a member 
of the Lord Falkland administration of the Province. He graduated 
from the University of Edinburgh, and came to Halifax in the year 
1845. In 1857 he left a very lucrative practice to take charge as its 
first Superintendent of the Provincial Hospital for the Insane. Under 
his directing genius the institution took rank as one of the best 
administered of its class. While fulfilling all the duties of a leading 
citizen for so many years, he was always a staunch friend of the Insti- 
tute of Science, in which he took an interest from its institution to 
his death. Not being able to be present at one of our meetings not 
very long ago in which the subject of ventilation of public buildings 
was being discussed, he supplemented the report of the discussion 
reported in the morning papers by a full and ably presented discussion 
of some points which he had demonstrated in his own experience, 
which he sent me for consideration, with special reference to the ven- 
tilation requirements of the Provincial Normal School. In him we 
have lost the last member on our list who joined the Institute during 
its first year. 
Captain William Henry Smith, R. N. R., F. R. G.8., who was a 
member from the year 1889, died on the fifth of May, in the sixty- 
fourth year of his age. He was born in Kent, England, was educated 
at Canterbury and Greenwich, entered the Allan steamship service 
during the Crimean War, and was present at some of the engagements, 
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