Ixxxvi PROCEEDINGS. 
WORK. 
We have also lost the presence of Professor James Gordon 
MacGregor from our midst by his translation from the University of 
Dalhousie College to the Professorship of Natural Philosophy in the 
University of Edinburgh. He has been a member of this Institute 
from the year 1877, since which time he has served in all of the most 
important offices with a vigor which has transformed the institution 
in many respects. Not only did he furnish many valuable papers for 
our Transactions, but he prepared students who, during the last few 
years, added most important records of original scientific research to 
our list of valuable papers. And not only did he do these things, but 
he spent yearly a great deal of time in developing our foreign 
exchanges and laying the foundation of our present Provincial Scien- 
tific Library. Although not likely to be with us at our meetings, 
Professor MacGregor has put too mnch of himself into our Institute 
not to continue to be interested in its progress, and disposed to work 
with us still. The banquet tendered him on his departure for the 
“motherland” by this Institute, combined with the University of 
Dalhousie, was a public testimony to his services, and I am glad that 
the Council has added another small testimony in unanimously electing 
him to life membership, which we trust may be a very long member- 
ship. 
At our regular meetings during the year quite a variety of 
subjects was discussed, the more valuable papers of which will soon 
appear in the volume of the Proceedings and Transactions. Mr. Poole 
described the new Calyx Drill; and exhibited specimens of the great 
cores of rock cut out by it, and at a subsequent meeting presented for 
examination a transverse section of Stigmaria, showing the cellular 
structure of its central vascular bundles with extraordinary distinct- 
ness. The excellence of the preservation of this structure makes its 
description a valuable one for the paleontologist. Mr. Prest utilized 
his expedition to the Labrador coast by giving us a vivid picture of 
his observations on Drift Ice as an Eroding and Transporting Geologi- 
cal Agent. Mr. Weatherbe demonstrated the latest explorations in 
the Torbrook fron District. Mr. Fletcher discussed the nomenclature 
of our geological formations, taking in the New Glasgow Conglomer- 
ates this time—one of the most interesting of the series on the histor- 
