AUG . i 

 PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SESSION" OF 1892-3. 



Annual Business Meeting. 



Halifax, 2Ut November, 1S92. 

 Dr. M. Murphy, President, in the chair. 

 The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and approved. 



The President addressed the Institute as follows : — 



Gentlemen, — Twenty-two years of association with the Nova Scotian Institute 

 of Natural Science, or with the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, its new name, 

 as a member, and for the greater portion of that time as a member of Council, 

 have not lessened the sense of appreciation I have from the first entertained, of 

 the honor that you have conferred by my appointment as President. On the con- 

 trary, this long connection has served to intensify my present feeling of obligation 

 to the Council and the members for having elected me to that office. 



Many of the active menibers of that date (1870) have since passed away, leaving 

 handsome records of scientific thought and research on the pages of the Pro- 

 ceedings and Transactions of the Institute ; and whilst we have had from time to 

 time to mourn their loss, it is gratifying to be able to remark that others still 

 remain with us, and are no less active in contributing to the progressive knowledge 

 that time and experience are daily revealing. Moreover, new life and vigor is 

 being imparted, for at no time in its past history was our Institute of Science 

 more assiduously cultivated than during the term of office of the late President ; 

 nor does his zeal end here : he is ever active for the promotion of its interests. 



During the past year we have lost two of our oldest and best members. Dr. J. B. 

 Gilpin and Mr. A. Downs. 



John Bernard Gilpin, a. m., m, d., m. r. c. s., who died on the 12th March, 

 1S92, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 4th, 1810. He was a 

 son of J. Bernard Gilpin, of Vicar's Hill, Hants, England, who was for many 



