xlvill PROCEEDINGS. 



Librarian— li.KHRY Piers. 



Councillors without Office — Maynard Bowman, B. A.; Watson L. 

 Bishop; Edwin Gilpin, Jr., Ll. D.. F. R. S. C, I. S. O.; Alex- 

 ander McKay; J. B. McCarthy, B. A., M. Sc. ; Professor 

 Frederic H. Sexton, B. Sc; Henry S. Poole, D. Sc, F. R. S. C. 

 Auditors — Professor D. A. Murray, Ph. D. ; R. McColl, C. E. 

 A vote of thanks was presented to tlie retiring President, Dr. 

 PoOLP], for the very able manner in wliidi lie had filled the position 

 during his term of office. 



A vote of thanks was presented to H. Fieks for his work as 

 secretary. 



First Ordinary Meeting. 



Assembly Boom, Province Building, Halifax. ISlli Nov., 1905. 



The President, Mr. Doane, in the chair. 



It was annonnced that the following had been elected ordinary 

 members: A. A. Hayward, Halifax; Arthur Stanley Mac- 

 kenzie, Ph. D., Professor of Physics, Dalhousie College, Halifax ; 

 Ernest Brydon-Jack, M. A., C. E., professor of civil engineering, 

 Dalhousie C^ollege, Halifax; and that Monro Archibald, B. A.,. 

 B. Sc, had been elected an associate meml)er. 



Captain J. H. Barbour, M. D., Royal Army Medical Corps, 

 Halifax, read a paper. "■ On the Flora of Mc^ab's Island, Halifax 

 Harbour, N. S." (See Transactions, p. ao-J). The subject was dis- 

 cussed by Di;. A. H. MacTvay, and a vote of thanks presented to 

 Captain Barbour. 



In the absence of the author. H. Pii-:i!s ivad a '" Catalogue of 

 the Birds of Prince Edward Island," ]ne})ared by John Mac- 

 Swain, of Charlottetown. (See Transactions, p. 570). 



