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they will hasten the time when our reputation for scierice will not be 

 confined to a few great names, but that all the people will reap the 

 benefit in the opening up of new centres of those industries and 

 manufactories for which the province is so well adapted. 



The TREASURER presented the accounts for the year, 1897-8, which 

 had been audited and were certified as correct. The following is an 

 analytical statement of the expenditure : 



PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS : 



Printing- and binding- Vol. IX., Part 3. . $158 oo 



Less received for authors' separate copies 2 50 



$155 50 



Distributing- Vol. IX., Part 3 29 32 



$184 82 



Printing portion of Vol. IX., Part 4 $61 60 



Portrait and Plate, do 14 22 



75 82 

 LIBRARY : 



Removal to Dalhousie College $17 65 



Fittings 56 41 



Purchase of U. S. Government Reports 13 15 



Binding 75 oo 



Miscellaneous expenses 8 20 



170 41 



Insurance (Library and Stock of Transactions) 16 75 



Miscellaneous Printing, including Post Cards 25 oo 



Postage 5 67 



P. O. Box 4 oo 



Advertising 4 oo 



Repairing and removing Blackboards i 80 



Typewriting 75 



$489 02 



The Treasurer's Report was approved. 



The Report on the Library was presented by the LIBRARIAN and 

 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. The Library had been increasing during 

 the past year at a greater rate than ever before. The Institute had sent 

 its Transactions for the first time to the following : 



Director-General de Correos y Telegraphos, Buenos Ayres. 



Asociacion de Ingenicros Industrials, Barcelona. 



State Library of Massachusetts, Boston. 



St. Anne's College, Church Point, Digby Co., N. S. 



Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



