XXXll PROCEEDINGS. 



Zoology found an exponent in Mr. Frank H. Reid who had man y 

 interesting things to say on the nidification of some of our birds. 



Chemistry was not neglected. Mr. F. H. Mason gave notes on 

 provincial hydraulic lime and cement, and Mr. W. H. Ross contri- 

 buted the results of a study of solutions of hydroxylaminQ. and its 

 salts. 



Botanical studies were shewn not yet to have been carried to 

 exhaustion, for Capt. J. H. Barbour, A. M. C, on the local varieties 

 of blue-eyed grass, suggested a new line of comparison. The value 

 of combined observation conducted under experienced supervision by 

 public school children was noted in the further additions to pheno- 

 logical records laboriously compiled by Dr. A. H. MacKay. 



The veteran. Dr. H. Y. Hind, dwelt on the importance to miners - 

 of a knowledge of rock foldings ; and the new science courses at 

 Dalhousie College bore fruit in papers by two students, Mr. T. T 

 Fulton writing on the Faults of Battery Point, Sydney, and Mr. L. 

 A. DeWolfe on the cliff sections at North Sydney ; papers indicating 

 careful record of close observation. Dr. Woodman gave the biblio- 

 graphy and an exhaustive review of the gold-bearing rocks of Nova 

 Scotia which he proposed should be designated " Meguma." The 

 same gentleman recorded the earthquake shocks which were observed 

 in parts of the Maritime Provinces in March of the present year. 

 A criticism of the long received view that Louisbourg supplied 

 evidence of very recent subsidence came from the pen of Mr. Kenneth 

 Mcintosh and met with general acceptance. To the writer was given 

 an opportunity to ask for a review of the age of the conglomerate 

 here and there capping the Cambrian rocks of the Atlantic coast. It 

 was also given to him to speak of the " Sunken Land of Bus," whei^e 

 the cabled depths of mid-ocean recalled the ancients' story of the 

 fabled Atlantis. 



Mr. T. Vardy Hill referred to the creation and development of 

 the foundation of the earth, and in this country was also heard an 

 echo of the revived discussion of the relation of scientific studies to 

 religious beliefs and something of the progress made among the 

 foothills of knowledge by such seekers after truth as have met the 

 outposts so long and strongly held by theological teachers. While 

 by the bulk of our people the views of forty years ago are still 



