PROCEEDINGS. Ivii 



Third Ordinary Meeting, Provincial Museum, Halifax, 8th January, 1894. 

 The President in the Chair. 

 Inter alia, 



Dr. E. Gilpin, Deputy Commissioner of Mines, read a paper entitled : " On 

 the Nictaux Iron Ore Field." 



F. W. W. Doane, C. E., read a paper entitled: "On the Operation of the 

 Kennedy Scraper, and the Cause of Recent Failure." 



Fourth Ordinary Meeting, Provincial Museum, Halifax, 12th February, 1894. 



The President in the Chair. 



Inter alia. 



The President, Prof. G. Lawson, read a paper entitled : " On the Botanical 

 and Commercial History of Nova Scotia Foxberries." 



A paper by G. H. Cox, B. A., entitled: "List of Plants Collected in and 

 aronnd the Town of Shelburne, 1890-9.3," was read by the President. 



Fifth Ordinary Meeting, Province Building, Halifax, 12th March, 1894. 



The President in the Chair. 



Inter alia, 



A paper by Principal A. Cameron, of Yarmouth, N. S., entitled : " Notes on 

 Venus, — Morning and Evening Star at the same time," was read by the Sec- 

 retary. 



A paper by Mr. F. J. A. McKittrick, of Kentville, N. S., entitled : "On the 

 Measurement of the Resistance of Electrolytes," — and containing the results of a 

 series of experimental observations made in the Physical Laboratory of Dal- 

 housie College, was read by the Secretary. 



A paper by Mr. D. M. Bliss, Am. Inst. Elec. Eng., entitled: '* The Coming 

 Development of Artificial Illumination," was read by the Secretary. The fol- 

 lowing is an extract from this paper : — 



" While a great advance in artificial illumination has been made in the direc- 

 tion of convenience, brilliancy and flexibility, yet it would be hard to find a 

 branch of applied science in which so little improvement in efficiency has been 

 made. And no process is so wasteful of precious energy as tjiis we are now con- 

 sidering. 



To the unreflecting mind it would seem that the principle involved in the pro- 

 duction of light by the wavering flame of the tallow dip is very diflerent from 

 that brought into action in the electric light, arc or incandescent ; but a little 

 thought will serve to convince one that the principles involved in both cases are 

 the same, and indeed the first rays that burst on the astonished gaze of some an- 

 cient investigator as he lit the first torch, proceeded from the same source as 



