11 PROCEED I NCiS. 



On the 13th of Jamuiry. Dr. R. W. Ellis, of the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, presented a valuable paper on the Progress of Geological 

 Investigation in I^ova Scotia : and we had the pleasure of inspecting 

 a mounted collection of flowering plants, brought from Labrador in 

 the months of July and August preceding, by Mr. Walter H. Prest. 

 On the 10th of February, Dr. H. M. Ami's paper on the Cambrian 

 Age of tlie Dictyonema Slates of New Canaan and Kentville, opened 

 up an intei'esting discussion in which Mr. H. S. Poule took a leading 

 and most interesting part. Mr. Poole also exhibited a specimen of 

 slate from near Green Bank, Point Pleasant, Halifax, showing 

 curious markings like worm-trails. 



Miss A. Louise Jagger, of California, prepared a provisional list 

 of the flowering plants observed in Digby County, which was presented 

 to the meeting. And Mr. T. C. Hebb, M. A., of Dalhousie College, 

 presented a valuable paper on the Determination of the Freezing-point 

 Depression Constant for Electrolytes. 



On the 10th of March, Mr. Walter H. Prest read a supplementary 

 paper on Drift Ice as an Eroding Agent, exhibiting specimens of sand 

 and pebbles carried on ice along the Labrador coast. Professor 

 Davidson, of the University of New Brunswick, prepared an important 

 and elaborate paper on Agricultural Credit, which was presented to 

 this meeting. R. S. Boehner, B. Sc, of Dalhousie College, also 

 presented a paper on the Standardization of Hydrochloric Acid with 

 Borax ; and T. C. Hebb, M. A., of Dalhousie, presented a second 

 paper, this time on the Determination of the Freezing-point Depression 

 of Dilute Solutions of Electrolytes. 



Owing to the impossibility of the completion of the remaining, 

 papers for presentation at the regular meetings subsequent, the Council 

 authorized their publication in the forthcoming volume with those 

 read before the Institute. These include the Phenological Observations 

 made in the Public Schools of the Province, and by members of the 

 Botanical Club of Canada ; w^hich were summed up under the direction 

 of your president, and contain interesting obervations by Mr. C. B. 

 Robinson, B. A., of the Pictou Academy, on the Early Intervale 

 Elora of the North of Nova Scotia. 



