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PROCEEDINGS 



^olia ^cotian Jnstitutc of (Science. 



SESSION" OF 1905-1906 



Annual Business Meeting. 

 Legisldtirc Council C]ui)iihrr, Halifax, IStlt Octohrr, 1905. 

 The I'uEsiDENT, Dr. Henry S. Toole, in the chair. 

 Presidential Address. — By Henry S. Poole, I). Sc, F. 11. S. C. 

 Thr Institute's Work. 



We are ont-e more met together to hohi an annual meeting, to 

 receive reports, elect officers for the ensuing year, and open another 

 session of this Institute. During the year that has closed, we suf- 

 fered no loss of members, and the interest taken in the meetings 

 remained at the standard customary of late. 



I'he additional movement established a few years ago, viz. the 

 popularizing of special meetings, has been continued with a gratify- 

 ing attendance. Advantage was tal\en, through ^Ir. denney's kind- 

 ness in placing his electric-lantern at the service of the Institute, 

 the better to display the carefully prepared and attractive illustra- 

 tions of volcanoes wliich Dr. Woodman was enabled to use at his 

 lecture to an a})preciative audience. It will be noted that half the 

 papers read and submitted at the hist session were more or less 

 geological. This should create no surprise in a province so given 

 over to mining, and possessed of to wide a range of strata well 

 exposed for study. Of a different class was the paper of Mr. W. H. 

 Prest on "' Edible Wild Plants of Xova Scotia," which brought to 

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