PROCHHDINGS 
OF THE 
Nova Scotian Mustitute of Natural Science. 
WO = Vs MEVA Er MEW = 
ANNUAL Business MreEtrnc, Halifax, 9th Oct., 1889. 
The PRESIDENT in the Chair. 
The Minutes cf the last annual meeting were read and approved. 
The Treasurer’s Accounts were audited by R. J. Witson and H. Piers. 
The following were elected Members of Council for the current year :— 
President—Prof, J. G. MaAcGreraor, D. Sc. 
Vice-Presidents—MArtTIN Murpny, C. E., A. H. MacKay, B. A., B. Sc. 
Corresponding Secretary—Rev. D. Honeyman, D. C. L. 
Recording Secretary—ALEXANDER McKay. 
Treasurer—W. C. SILVER. 
Librarian—M ayNarp BowMAN. 
Councillors without office—Prof. Gro. Lawson, LL. D., E. Giupin, Jr., A. M., 
F.G.S., J. Somers, M.D., J.J. Fox, H. W. W. Doang, R. J.. Witson, AUGUSTUS 
ALLISON. 
OrDINARY MretiInG, Art School Rooms, Nov. 11, 1889. 
The PRESIDENT in the Chair. 
Inter alia. 
On motion of Prof. G. LAwson, seconded by Mr. M. Murpuy, it was resolved 
that the following record of the sentiments of the Institute, on the occasion of 
the death of Rev. Dr. HoNrEyMAN, be placed in the Minutes :— 
‘* Since our last meeting it has pleased the Almighty to call away from us our 
fellow member, the Rev. Dr. HONEYMAN, who departed this life on the 17th day of 
October last. We desire to embrace this first occasion of our assembling together 
since the solemn event to express and place on record our feelings of respect and 
esteem for our late colleague, as an active and enthusiastic naturalist, an earnest 
and devout searcher for truth, a warm friend, genial companion, and vivacious 
expounder of his favorite science. Ilis assiduous researches, extending over a 
period of many years, on the geology of a considerable portion of the northeastern 
part of Nova Scotia, have made his name known wherever the science is studied. 
As an official of the Nova Scotian Government, at several of the International 
Exhibitions held in Great Britain and France, he did much to make widely 
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