iUL e isit, 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



^oba ^cati^n Jnstitute of Science, 



SESSION OF 1904-1905. 



Annual Business Meeting. 

 Legislative Ccmncil Chamber, Halifax, 17th October, 1901/.. 

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



Presidential Address : (1) Progress of the Institute, (2) Bor, 

 iNGs in Search of Coal. By Henry S. Poole, d. sc, 



ASSOC. ROY. sc. mines, F. G. S., F. R. S. C, HON. M. I. M. E,, &C. 



The honor, I have had of being your chairman for a second term, 

 gives me again the privilege of reporting the work of the past session, 

 and an opportunity to lightly touch on the papers submitted. 



Prog7'ess of the Institute. 



Besides the regular monthly gatherings, a special meeting to hear 

 papers by Mr. E. Stuart and Mr. R. H. Campbell, of Ottawa, on 

 Forestry, illustrated by drawings enlarged on a screen, appealed to 

 popular taste. 



The subject matter of the papers at the ordinary meetings covered 

 a wide range, as might be expected from a maritime people with 

 diversified interests and familiarized by easy travel with the littoral 

 of many lands. The consideration of time and its effects during 

 periods that extended back into thousands of centuries, created no 

 surprise ; and geological questions, chieily of local bearing, furnished 

 subjects fot one-third of the papers presented to the Institute. 



Proc. & Trans. N. S. Inst. Sci. Vol. XI. Proc— C. 



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