Ix PROCEEDINGS. 



-FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 

 City Council Chamber, Halifax, 18th February, 1901. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



It was announced that PROP. EVERETT W. SAWYER, of Acadia College, 

 Wolfville, and PROF. F. C. SEARS, Director of the N. S. School of 

 Horticulture, Wolfville, had been elected associate-members. 



A communication was read by the RECORDING SECRETARY, from the 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BELGIUM, announcing the death of its 

 Honorary President, the BARON DE SELYS-LONGCHAMPS. 



On motion it was resolved that the N. S. Institute of Science express 

 its deep sympathy with the Entomological Society of Belgium in con- 

 nection with the irreparable loss which the society has sustained through 

 the death of its Honorary President, the Baron de S ^lys-Longchamps. 



A communication was also read from the ZOOLOGICAL-BOTANICAL 

 SOCIETY OF VIENNA announcing the celebration of its fiftieth anni- 

 versary. 



On motion it was resolved that the N. S. Institute of Science offer 

 its cordial congratulations to the Zoological-Botanical Society of Vienna, 

 on the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary and the completion of fifty 

 years of fruitful work, and express the hope that the society's efforts for 

 the advancement of science may, in the future, as in the past, be crowned 

 with success. 



PROF. H. W. SMITH, B. Sc., of the Provincial Agricultural School, 

 read two papers, entitled, (1) "Rotation of Leguminous Crops," and (2) 

 " The Preservation and Use of the Tops of Turnips and other Root 

 Crops." 



The subjects were discussed by HON. T. R. BLACK, Da. MACKAT, 

 MR. G. MARSHALL, and others. 



A vote of thanks was presented to PROF. SMITH for his communica- 

 tions. 



Owing to the lateness of the houf, the reading of MR. POOLE'S paper 

 on " Stigmaria Structure," and of DR. MALAY'S " Note on Gravel taken 

 by the mushroom-anchor of the ' Mackay-Beunett,'" were postponed. 



