PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



^oba ^cotian Jiuititutc of ^cienct. 



SESSION OF 1902-1903. 



Annual Business Meeting. 

 Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax., 2J^th JVovemher, 1U02. 

 The President, Dr. A. H. MacKay, in the chair. 



Presidential Address. — Bv A. H. MacKay. Ll. D., kc. 



Gentlemen, — During the past year our Institute has been fortunate 

 in losing none of its members. Our membership and funds have 

 increased. The scientific work done by our members and affiliations 

 appears to be extending, so that we have reason to expect mure in the 

 future than has been done in the past. 



THE institute's WORK. 



The work of last year commenced on the 7th of November, by a 

 lecture on Roman Coins, by Mr. R. W. McLachlan, of the Numismatic 

 and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, and an exhibition of the Roman 

 Coins of our own Provincial Museum, by Mr. A. H. C. Prichard, of 

 Brooklyn, New York, who studied and arranged the collection. 



On the 9th of December, Professor Earnest Haycock, President of 

 the Wolfville branch of the Institute, presented his report on the 

 organization and w^oi-k of the Wolfville Institute : and tlie members 

 had the pleasure of studjnng an interesting variety of Bofrychium 

 ternatum, Swartz, (The Ternate Grape-Fei n), collected at Blomidon, 

 by Mrs. R. R. McLeod, of Brookfield, Queens County. 



Proc. & Trans. N. s Inst. Sci., Vol. XI. Proc- A. 



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