OFFICERS, ETC. xlvil 



AV. McKekkox })re^ente(l a report as delegate to the meeting of 

 the Koyal Society of Canada. 



Votes of tlianks were passed to Hon. M. IT. ({oudge. President 

 of the Legislative Council, for liis courtesy in granting the society 

 the use of the (^ouncil Chaniher as a place of meeting during the 

 past session : and to the Seoketaky of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Washington, for courtesy in continuing to admit the 

 Institute to the privileges of the Bureau of International 

 Exchanges. 



The President Iirought to the notice of the meeting a note by 

 E. Euedemann, assistant state palu'ontologist, Albany, N. Y., on 

 three specimens of Dictijonciun irchstcrl from New Canaan near 

 Kentville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, belonging to the Webster col- 

 lection, Provincial Museum, Halifax. Mr. Puedmann re])orts as 

 follows regarding these specimens : 



" Dicti/uiK'iiui wehsteri lias been figured, but not described, by 

 Dawson in C^madian Naturalist and Geologist, vol. v, 18(i0, p. 139, 

 and again figured in Acadian Geology, 1<S91, p. 563, but not 

 described. Thus this species is nowhere described. A careful com- 

 parison with authentical material of D. rctiforme, Hall, from the 

 Rochester (Niagaran) shale in New York, fails to show any differ- 

 ences sufficient for specific distinction, and it is, tlierefore, quite 

 sure that D. wehsteri is identical with D. rclifoniie." He reports 

 further that a lot of Dictyonetna.s from Benton and Monument 

 Settlement, Carleton County, New Brunswick, and from Navy 

 Island, St. John, N. B., labelled Dictijonouut socialc, all belong to 

 one sjjecies, Dictijonrmd fiabellifortiip, Eichwald (sp.) (== 

 Didijonema sociale, Salter |sp.], a Latin name). This species is 

 characteristic of the closing stage of the C*and)ric age. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year (1905- 

 190(;): 



President— F. W. W. Doane, C. E., ex-officio F. R. M. S. 

 Vice-Presidents — Professor Ebenezer MacKay, Ph. D., and Profes- 



SOR J. Edmund Woodman, D. Sc. 

 Treasurer — William McKerron. 



Corresponding Heeretarij — A. H. MacKay, Ll. D., F. R. S. C. 

 Recording tiecretary — Harry Piers. 



