CONTENTS. 



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Proceedings, Session of 1902-1903 : 



Presidential Address, by A. H. MacKay, LL. D., F. R. S. C i 



The Institute's Work ^ 



Work of Affiliated Organizations iii 



General Provincial Work iii 



Recommendation iv 



Improving Facilities v 



Checking Malaria v.- ^^ 



Extinction of Yellow Fever vi 



Report of Treasurer > ... viii 



Report of Librarian viii 



Reportof King's County Branch of the Institute viii 



Officers for 1902-3 x 



Ordinary Meetings, y xi 



Major English,— Guns and Gunnery. (Title only.) : xi 



Prof. E. E. Prince,— The Swim Bladder of Fishes, a degenerate gland. 



(Title only ; to appear in Part 2 of this volume.) xii 



Prof. E. E. Prince,— Colours of Animals, their nature and meaning. (Title 



only.) xii 



Dr. H. M. Ami,~Meso-Carboniferous Age of the Union and Riversdale 

 Formations of Nova Scotia, and of their equivalents, the Mispec and 



Lancaster Formations in New Brunswick. (Title only.) xiii 



H. S. Poole, F. R. S. C.,— Note on Dictyonema websteri. (Title only.) xiii 



H. Piers,— Three Abnormal Zoological specimens recently received at the 



Provincial Museum. (Title only.) xiii 



C. B. Robinson, B. A..— Note on Lichen-mimicing Caterpiller xiii 



Prof. J. E. Woodman, D. Sc.,— Yellowstone National Park. (Title only.). . . xiv 



Dr. A. H. MacKay,— Botanical Notes. (Title only.) xv 



C, B. Robinson, — Distribution of Fucus serratus in Nova Scotia. (Title 



only.) XV 



P. R. Colpitt,- Wireless Telegraphy. (Title only.) xv 



Transactions, Session of 1902-1903 : 



Is there Coal beneath Prince Edward Island ?— By Henry S. Poole, F. G. S., 



F. R. S. C 1 



Sections and Analyses of Nova;Scotian Coals.— By Edwin Gilpin, Jr., LL. D., 



F. R. S. C Inspector of Mines 8 



Geology of Moose River Gold District, Halifax Co., N. S.-By Prof. J. E. 



Woodman, D. Sc, School of Mining and Metallurgy, Dalhousie Col- 

 lege 18 



, The Mira Grant, Cape Breton Co.— By Edwin Gilpin, Jr., LL. D., F. R. S. C, 



Inspector of Mines 89 



Contribution to the Study of Solutions of Hydroxylamine and its Salts.— 



By W. H. Ross, B. Sc, Dalhousie College 95 



Middleton Fungi, with general remarks.— By Reginald R. Gates, Mt. 



Allison University, Sackville, N. B Il5 



Fungi of Nova Scotia ; a provisional list.— By A. H. MacKay, LL. D., F. R. 



S. C, Superintendent of Education 122 



Phenol ogical Observations in Nova Scotia and Canada, 1902.— By A. H. 



MacKay, LL D., F. R. S. C 144 



Ice-borne Sediments in Minas Basin, N. S.-By J. Au.sten Bancroft, Acadia 



College, Wolfville, N. S 158 



Appendix I : 



List of Members, 1902-1903 



