PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



^olnt (Scotiiin Jnstitutc of (Science, 



SESSrOX OF 1903-19r)i. 



Annual Business Meeting. 

 Legislative Council Chamher, Halifax., 16th Xovemher, 1903. 

 The President, Dk. Henry S. Poole, in the chair. 



Presidential Address: (I) Progress of the Institute, (2) The 

 Application of Scirnck to Mining. 



By Henry S. Poole, D. Sc, Assoc. Roy. Sc. Mines, F. G. S., 

 F. R. 8. C , Hon. M. I. M. E., Ac. 



Members of the Institute of Science : Gentlemen, — A year ago, 

 when I was able to look back on a membership of thirty years, you 

 honored me bv election to the chair of this Institute. New, as your 

 Prosident, it becomes a duty to submit a report of our proceedings 

 during the past year, and to bid .you welcome to-night to this, the 

 opening meeting of another session. 



The reports of the various departments, which will be presented to 

 you by our indefatigable secretary', and our painstaking treasurer will 

 show our standing as a society, and the gains and losses we have sus- 

 tained in membership. Of the former we are hopeful of usefulness to 

 come, but of the latter we are in no uncertain doubt, as the Institute 

 has suffered the loss of two important members, Mr. W. C. Silver, full 

 of years and honors, and Mr A Cameron, in the prime of life. 



Mr. William Chamberlain Silver, who was born here of English 

 parents in 1811, was for over half a century a well-known figure at 

 Pkoc. & Trans. X. S. Ixst. Sci. Vol. XI. Pkoc — B. 



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