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PROCEEDINGS 



OK THE 



,Scotian Institute of Science. 



SESSION OF 1898-99. 



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ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 14th March, 1898. 

 The PRESIDENT, MB. A. McIvAY, in the chair. 

 The PRESIDENT addressed the Institute, as follows : 



GENTLEMEN, It is an educational axiom of the first importance that 

 in presenting a new subject for study it should in some vital way be 

 correlated with ideas already in the mind of the student. 



Guided by this principle, I should at the beginning of another year's 

 work of this Institute, review briefly the progress made during the past 

 year. This was in many respects most unsatisfactory, Never before 

 did we have so much difficulty in securing papers for our ordinary 

 meetings. We had in all thirteen communications, of which eleven were 

 papers, . three read by title. Six of these papers gave the results of 

 investigations, conducted chiefly by two Dalhousie students in a physico- 

 chemical field, regarding the behavior of ions under certain conditions. 

 There were two papers relating to Geology, one to Natural History, 

 one to Ethnology, one to Botany. In addition, Mr. Twining exhibited 

 a model of a Pivot-boat, and explained its working, and Dr. MacGregor 

 gave an address on Laboratory Methods. 



It may, however, be found that the sum total of scientific knowledge 



has been increased somewhat by those original researches which were 



conducted in Dalhousie College, and that the printed results may be 



utilized by other investigators. Dr. Bailey's very interesting papers on 



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