co:n'tents. 



Froceedtngs, Session of 1893-94 :— Page 



Office-bearers for 1893-94 Ivi 



Prin. G. R. Marshall on " A supposed Shower of Worms " Ivi 



Mr. D iVl. Bliss on "The Coining Development of Artificial Illumination". Ivii 

 Mr. JoKN Forbes on " Some Modern Methods in Manufacturing with 

 certain Analogies suggested by a Partial Study of the Evolution 



and Nature of some of the Processes Employed " Ix 



.\dditions to List of Members Ixix 



.Additions to Exchange List Ixix 



Transactions, Session of 1893-94 : — 



L —On the Measurement of the Resistance of Electrolytes, by F. J. 



A, McKlTTRICK 381 



IL — Note on Venus, — Morning Star and Evening Star at the Same 



Time, February, 1894, by A. Cameron 391 



III. — Notes on Nova Scotian Zoology, No. 3, by Harry Piers 395 



IV. — Notes on a Collection of Silurian Fossils from Cape George, 

 Antigonish Co., N. S., with Descriptions of Four New Species, 



by Henry M. Ami, D. Sc, F.G.S 411 



v. — Notes on Recent Sedimentary Formations on the Bay of Fundy 



Coast, by R. VV. Ells, Ll.D., F.G.S. A., P.R.S.C .... 41t> 



VI. — Deep Mining in Nova Scotia, by W. H. Prest 420 



VII. • Notes on the Sydney Coal Field, by E. Gilpin, Ll.D , F.G.S ... 435 

 VIIL — List of Plants collected in and around the Town of Shelburne, 



N. S. , by George II. Cox, B. A 439 



IX. —Operation of tl>e Kennedy Scraper and Cause of Recent Failure, 

 by F. W. \Y. DoANE, M Can. Soc. C. K., City Engineer, 



Halifax, N. S 445 



X. — Phenolog cal Observations made at several Stations in Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick during the year 1893, compiled 



by A. H. MacKay, Ll.D., Halifax 451 



XI.- Notice of a Shower of Fil)rous Substance at Gainsville, Florida, 



by George Lavvson, Ll. D 456 



XII. — On the Definition of Work Done, by Prof. J G. ALvcGregor.-. . 460 



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