X PROCEEDINGS. 



as distinctly mural and regular as if it were the work of man. Here was a great 

 Chinese wall of sand, with the proof before us that the builders were known only 

 to the sea, the wind, and the rush-like grasses. 



A. P. Reid, M. D., Superintendent of the N. S. Hospital for the Insane, 

 read a paper entitled : " Poverty Superseded, or a new Political Economy." 



Ordinary Meeting, Province Building, 9th Feb., 1891. 

 The President in the Chair. 

 Inter alia. 

 Prof. G. Lawson read a paper entitled : Notes for a Flora of Nova Scotia, Part I. 

 (See Transactions, p, 84. ) 



Mr. John Forbes read a paper entitled : Remarks upon the coating of iron 

 with magnetic oxide, and a siiggesbion of a probably new method of producing 

 it. (See Transactions, p. 27.) 



Ordinary Meeting, Pi-ovince Building, 9th March, 1891. 



The President in the Chair. 



loiter alia. 



The President read a paper by Mr. E. Gilpin, Jr., entitled : Analyses of Nova 

 Scotia Coals and other minerals. (See Transactions, p. 19.) 



The President read a paper by Mr. W. B. McKenzie, C. E., entitled : Notes on 

 Railroad Location and Construction in Eastern Canada. (See Transactions, p. 111.) 



On motion of Principal MacKay and Mr. M. Bowman, the following resolution 

 was passed : 



Whereas, we learn that the Geological Survey of the counties of Antigonish and 

 Pictou has been completed in such detail as cannot be adequately represented on 

 maps drawn to the proposed scale of four miles to an inch ; 



Resolved, that the Council be instructed to petition the Government to publish 

 the maps of these counties as soon as possible, and on a scale of not less than one 

 mile to an incli, the scale on which the survey of the Cape Breton counties has 

 been published. 



Ordinary Meeting, Provincial Museum, 13th April, 1891. 

 The President in the Chair. 

 Inter alia. 

 Prof. H. W. Smith read a paper entitled : Fertilizers on Sandy Soil. (See 

 Transactions, p. 122.) 



The President communicated a paper by Mr. A. M. Morrison, entitled : On the 

 variation with concentration of the density of dilute solutions of Cobalt and Nickel 

 Sulphates. (See Transactions, p. 132.) 



The President rea I e paper entitled : On some lecture experiments illustrating 

 properties of saline solutions. (See Transactions, p, 71.) 



