VI PROCEEDINGS. 



And whereas, said society did in the present year, 1890, cliange its name to 

 *' The Nova Scotian Institute of Science ;" 



And ivherea-'^, the members of said society are desirous of becoming incorporated 

 under said name ; 



Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows : 



1. The president and members of the society now known as the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science, their successors and assigns, are created a body corporate by 

 the name of " The Nova Scotian Institute of Science." 



2. The object of said body shall be the promotion of scientific research, and it 

 shall have power to buy, hold, lease or sell real estate to the value of S50,000, 

 and may borrow or lend money. 



3. It shall also have power to make by-laws regulating its membership, 

 officers, and the management of its business generally, provided such by-laws are 

 not contrary to any general law of the province. 



4. All the property of the society known as "The Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Science," shall become the property of the body hereby incorporated, so soon as 

 said society, at a meeting called for that purpose shall, by a two-thirds vote of 

 its member's present, pass a resolution approving of such transfer of its property. 



5. The said corporators may hold their first meeting on the second Wednesday 

 of October, 1890, on which day this Act shall come into force, and may transact 

 at such meeting any business arising under the powers hereby conferred on them. 



On motion of Messrs. A. McKay and M. Bowman, the liaws of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science (unincorporated) were adopted as the laws of this Institute. 

 The following were then elected members of Council for the ensuing year : — 



President— Frof. J. G. MacGregor, D. Sc. 



Vice-Presidents — Martin Murphy, D. Sc, C. E., and J. Somers, M. D. 



Corresponding Secretary — A. H. MacKay, B. A., B. Sc. 



Recording Secretary — Alexandkr McKay. 



Treasurer — Wm. C. Silver. 



Librarian — M. Bowman. 



CoimciUors v:ithout office: — Prof. G. Lawson, LL. D., E. Gilpin, Jr., A. M., 

 F. G. S., F. W. W. Doane, C. E., R. J. Wilson, Augustus Allison, D. A. Camp- 

 bell, M. D. , and Principal O'Hearn. 



Ordinary Meeting, Province Building, Halifax, 10th November, 1890. 

 The President in the Chair. 

 Inter alia. 

 The President read a paper by Prof. L. W. Bailey, Ph. U., entitled : Notes ou 

 the Surface Geology of South Western Nova Scotia. (See Transactions, p. 1.) 



Rev. M. Maury, D. D., of Waltham, Mass., called attention to anew process 

 in telegraphy and explained the nature of it. 



