Ixxxviil PROCEEDINGS. 
notice, last year, of Mr. A. H. Cooper Prichard, a numismatic expert 
for some time engaged in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and who 
prepared, under the direction of the Treasury Department of Jamaica, 
the coin collection exhibited at the Jamaica Exhibition of 1891. On 
returning to the Province this summer, after a study extending over 
some months, he at length completed his determinations of the various 
coins which are now properly and minutely catalogued. Mr. Prichard 
undertook this work asa labor of love, no doubt also interested in 
many of the curious mementoes of antiquity turning up. And it is 
fortunate for us, for I fear we could not well afford to pay the cost of 
Mr. Prichard’s very thorough work. Iam glad, however, to be able 
to intimate that the Council has just elected him to corresponding 
membership in the Institute as a token of our appreciation of his 
valuable services, and that he has graciously accepted the distinction. 
SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. 
On the flat above the Museum we have our new Provincial Scien- 
tific Library, also under the charge of Mr. Piers, who deals with it as 
a part of the Museum. This composite collection of publications, the 
great nucleus of which is the original library of this Institute, has 
already been reduced to order. The Government has added to it 
modern works of science, both elementary and advanced, such books 
as are absolutely necessary in such a library, to the value of $500 ; 
and we have reason to hope that this intelligent appreciation of the 
necessity of stimulating the scientific development of the thought and 
industries of the Province will continue to be shown by a Government 
which has done so much to make a start in a line deemed now so 
essential by every progressive country’ 
PROVINCIAL PROGRESS. 
While at headquarters the growth of our scientific equipment is 
satisfactory, the developmeut of the Scientific spirit appears also to be 
accelerating throughout the Province. Under the stimulating influ- 
ence of Professor Haycock a branch or affiliated organization has been 
instituted at Wolfville, which is thus making a bid for the second place 
as a scientific centre in the Province. While the access to the library 
of the Institute and to publication in our Proceedings and Transactions 
will be of some value to the local institution, it will also tend to 
