ORDINARY MEETINGS. Ixi 



FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 

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



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



It was announced that GEORGE M. EDWARDS, ESQ., B. Sc., Halifax, 

 had been elected an ordinary member. 



A communication was read from the ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA, 

 asking the Institute to appoint a delegate to attend the Society's meet- 

 ing to be held at Ottawa on May 21st. The matter was referred to the 

 Council. 



On motion, the Council was directed to prepare a resolution expres- 

 sive of regret at the death of the late DR. J. R. DE~WOLFE, one of the 

 Institute's oldest members. 



[The resolution, subsequently prepared, was as follows : 

 " Resolved, That the Council place on record its deep sense of the 

 loss sustained by the Institute through the death of Dr. De Wolfe, 

 who was well known in his profession, was elected a member of the 

 Institute on 26th October, 1863, was for a number of years a member of 

 the Council and also second Yice-President, always took a deep interest 

 in and actively furthered the aims of the society, and was at the date of 

 his death the oldest living member. 



Further resolved, That the Secretary be directed to send a copy of 

 the resolution to the family of the deceased, and to express to them the 

 sympathy of tho Institute in their bereavement."] 



HENRY S. POOLE, ESQ., F. R. S. C., read a paper " On a Polished 

 'Section of Stigmaria showing an axial cellular structure." (See Trans- 

 actions, p. 345.) 



A. H. MAC!\ AY, ESQ., LL. D., presented the results of a microscopic 

 examination of the specimen of Stigmaria. (See Transactions, p. 346.) 



The subject was discussed by MESSRS. BISHOP and A. McKAY. 



A. H. MAC AY, Esq., LL. D., read a " Note on Gravel taken by the 

 mushroom-anchor of the ' Mackay-Bennett,' cable steamer, from the bot- 

 tom of the Atlantic, 40 miles west of Sable Island." 



The paper w,as discussed by MR. POOLE. 



