1XXX1V PROCEEDINGS. 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 9th December, 1901. 

 The PRESIDENT, DR. A. H. MACKAY, in the chair. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. BY A. H. MACKAY, LL. D., tr. 



Gentlemen, Since our last annual meeting we have lost some of 

 our members. It is a tribute to the constitution of things which every 

 human organization lias to pay. 



OBITUARIES. 



On the 5th of March, Dr. James Ratchforcl DeWolfe, who was a 

 member from the first session of the Institute in 1863, and who bore 

 his share in its administration as an officer, died in his 82nd year. 

 He was the son of the Hon. T. A. S. DeWolfe, at one time a member 

 of the Lord Falkland administration of the Province. He graduated 

 from the University of Edinburgh, and came to Halifax in the year 

 1845. In 1857 he left a very lucrative practice to take charge as its 

 first Superintendent of the Provincial Hospital for the Insane. Under 

 his directing genius the institution took rank as one of the best 

 administered of its class. While fulfilling all the duties of a leading 

 citizen for so many years, he was always a staunch friend of the Insti- 

 tute of Science, in which he took an interest from its institution to 

 his death. Not being able to be present at one of our meetings not 

 very long ago in which the subject of ventilation of public buildings 

 was being discussed, he supplemented the report of the discussion 

 reported in the morning papers by a full and ably presented discussion 

 of some points which he had demonstrated in his own experience, 

 which he sent me for consideration, with special reference to the ven- 

 tilation requirements of the Provincial Normal School. In him we 

 have lost the last member on our list who joined the Institute during 

 its first year. 



Captain William Henry Smith, R. N. R., F. R. G. S., who was a 

 member from the year 1889, died on the fifth of May, in the sixty- 

 fourth year of his age. He was born in Kent, England, was educated 

 at Canterbury and Greenwich, entered the Allan steamship service 

 during the Crimean War, and was present at some of the engagements, 



