COJSTTEISrTS. 



Procekdings of the Session of 1890-91 : — 



Presidential Address, by Prof. J. G. MacGregor i 



Act of Incorporation v 



Experiments on Nova Scotian Building Stone, by H. G. C. Ketchum. . vii 

 Occurrence of paraflBn tallow and petroleum in Nova Scotia, by R. B. 



B ROWN vii 



The Magdalene Islands, by A. H. Mackay, B. A., B. Sc, F. R. S. C viii 



Specific Gravity and Absorption of Building Stone from Nova Scotia 



and New Brunswick, by H. G. C. Ketchum xi 



List of Members xii 



List of Institutions to which copies of Transactions have been sent .... xv 



Transactions : — 



I. — Notes on the Surface Geology of Soutli- Western Nova Scotia, by 



Prof. L. W. Bailey, M. A , Ph. D 1 



11. — Steam Boiler Tests as a means of determining the caloriffic value of 



Fuels, by D. W. Rubb, M . E 9 



III. — Analyses of Nova Scotia Coals and other Minerals, by E. Gilpin, 



Jr., a. M., F. G. S 19 



IV. — Remarks upon the coating of Iron with magnetic oxide, and a 

 suggestion of a probably new method of producing it, by John 



Forbes 27 



V. - The Magdalene Islands, by Rev. G. Patterson. D. D.. F. R. S. C. 31 

 VI. — Notes on some explosions in Nova Scotia Coal Mines, by E. Gil- 

 pin, Jr., a. M., F. G. S 58 



VII. — On some lecture experiments illustrating properties of saline solu- 

 tions, by Prof. J. G. MacGregor 71 



VIIL— Pictou Island, by A. H. Mackay, B. A., B. Sc, F. R. S. C 7fi 



IX. -Notes for a Flora of Nova Scotia, Part I, by Prof. G. Lawson, 



Ph. D., Ll. D 84 



X. — Notes on Railroad Location and Construction in Eastern Canada, 



by Wm. B. McKenzie, C. E Ill 



XI. -Fertilizers on Sandy Soils, by Prof. 11. W. Smith, B. Sc 122 



XII — On the variation of density with concentration in weak aqueous 



solutions of Cobalt and Nickel Sulphates, by A. M. Morrison, B. A. 132 



