i PROCEEDINGS. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year (1899-1900): 

 President. A. H. MAC KAY, ESQ., LL. D., F. R. S. C., ex officio F. R., 



M. S. 

 Vice-Presidents.F. W. W. DOANE, ESQ., C. E., and HENRYS. POOLE, 



ESQ., F. G. S. 



Treasurer. WILLIAM C. SILVER, ESQ. 



Corresponding Secretary. PROF. J. G. MAcGREGOR, D. Sc. 

 Recording Secretary. HARRY PIERS, ESQ. 

 Librarian. MAYNARD BOWMAN, ESQ., B. A. 

 Councillors -without Office. ALEXANDER McKAY, ESQ. ; EDWIN GILPIN, 



JR., ESQ., LL. D., F. R. S. C. ; MARTIN MURPHY, ESQ., D. Sc. ; 



WILLIAM MCKERRON, ESQ. ; PROF. EBENEZER MACKAY, PH. D. ; 



WATSON L. BISHOP, ESQ. ; RODERICK McCoLL, ESQ., C. E. 

 Auditors. HERBERT E. GATES, ESQ., and G. W. T. IRVING, ESQ. 



FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 20th November, 1899. 



The PRESIDENT, DR. MACKAY, in the chair. 



The meeting was held after the adjournment of the Annual Business 

 Meeting. 



DR. H. M. AMI communicated a paper " On the Subdivisions of the 

 Carboniferous System in Eastern Canada," but owing to the lateness of 

 the hour the reading of the paper was deferred. 



SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, llth December, 1899. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



The council reported that ERNEST HAYCOCK, ESQ., Instructor in 

 Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, Acadia College, Wolfville, N. S., 

 had been elected an Associate member. 



The following resolution was adopted : "This Institute has learned 

 with the greatest regret of the death of its distinguished Corresponding 

 Member, SIR J. W. DAWSON, and desire to place on record its profound 

 sense of the eminence of the services rendered by him to the cause both 

 of Science and of Education, during a long life, which was happily as 

 fully characterized by successful results, as by unremitting efforts 

 towards the attainment of a noble ideal. 



