PROCEEDINGS. llll 



Ordinary Meeting, Church of England Institute, Halifax, 13th Feb., 1893. 



The President mi the Chair. 



Inter alia, 



H. S. Poole, F. G. S., read a paper entitled: "The Pictou Coal Field— A 

 Geological Revision." (See Transactions, p. 228.) 



Ordinary Meeting, Provincial Museum, Halifax, 10th April, 1893. 



The President in the Chair. 



Inter alia. 



Professor J. G. MacGregor read a paper entitled : " On the Definition of 

 Energy." 



Pr. MacKay, Superintendent of Education, read a paper prepared by the Rev. 

 A. C. Waghorne of Newfoundland and entitled : " The Flora of Newfoundland, 

 Labrador, and St. Pierre et Miquelon." (See Transactions, p. 359.) 



Ordinary Meeting, Province Building, Halifax, 8th May, 1893, 



Dr. MacKay, in the Chair. 



Inter alia, 



The President, Dr. M. Murphy, read a paper entitled : — " Crossing the Strait 

 of Canso by a Submarine Tube." 



Dr. Murphy read also a paper entitled : — " Bridge Sub-structures and Founda- 

 tions in Nova Scotia." (At the request of the American Society of Civil 

 Engineers, New York, this paper was subsequently read, by permission of the 

 Council, before the Civil Engineering Divi.sion of the International Congress 

 of Engineers held at Chicago in connection with tlie World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion ; and it has been published in the Transactions of the above Society, Vol. 

 XXIX (1893), page 620.) 



Professor G. Lawson read papers entitled : — " A Shower of Cotton-like Sub- 

 stance in Florida " ; " On a recent Whaling Expedition from Dundee " ; and " On 

 Hybrid Grafts." 



The following papers were read by title : — 



" Parasitic Fungi affecting the Apple and other Pomete, with Suggestions as to 

 their Destruction," by Dr. J. Somers. 



" Notes on Nova Scotian Zoology," by Harry Piers. 



" Venus by Daylight to Eye and to Opera-glass," by Aeneas Cameron, Principal 

 of Yarmouth Academy. (See Transactions, p. 34.5.) 



Dr. A. H. MacKay was appointed a Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada. 



