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centimeters long, with slender tentacular processes. This material was 

 originally bottled in alcohol which had nearly all evaporated before 

 examination, and the organism was not intact. The mud contained 

 siliceous grains with occasional sponge spicules, &c. 



3. From a depth of 30 fathoms, about 15 miles E. N. E. (magnetic) 

 from Flat Point, Sydney, C. B. 



a. Thin brachiopod shells, the largest about 28x22 mm . 



b. What suggested arborescent Polyzoan Zcecia, about l din high, 

 the cylindrical spray of branches having a diameter of about 15 mm . 



c. A sheet of the eggs of a gastropod. 



4. From between 



lat. 43 52' N., Ion. 58 53' W. in 500 fathoms, 

 Int. 43 53i' \., Ion. 58 59i' W. in 858 fathoms, 

 and lat. 43' 56' N., Ion. 59 3' W. in 170 fathoms. 

 A coral, of the form of caryophilia, vising from a thin encrustation 

 partly surrounding a pitch-covered cylinder (Cable) about 3 cm in dia- 

 meter, with a stem about l cm at the base, gradually expanding until at 

 a height of 4 cm it formed an elliptical cup-shaped corallite abou t 3.5 cm 

 and 4.5 cm in diameter, rilled with numerous septae of unequal height, in 

 one series. 



SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 9th April, 1900. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



The RECORDING SECRETARY read a communication from the Royal 

 Society of Canada, inviting the Institute to appoint a delegate to attend 

 the nineteenth general meeting of the Society to .be held at Ottawa on 

 the 29th of May next. The communication was referred to the Council 

 for action. 



PROF. ERNEST HAYCOCK of Acadia College, Wolfville, X. S., read a 

 paper entitled : " Records of Post-Triassie Changes in Kings Counly, 

 N. S." (See Transactions, p. 287.) 



The subject was discussed by DR. GILPIN and MR. McKAY, and a 

 vote of thanks was presented to the author. 



The PRESIDENT, A. H. MACKAY, ESQ., LL. D., read a paper on " A 

 Fresh-Water Sponge from Sable Island." To this species Dr. MacKay 

 proposed to give the name Heteromeyenia Macouni. The subject was 

 illustrated by microscopic preparations. (See Transactions, p. 319). 

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