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notice, ]ast year, of Mr. A. H. Cooper Prichard, a numismatic expert 

 for some time engaged in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and who 

 prepared, under the direction of the Treasury Department of Jamaica, 

 the coin collection exhibited at the Jamaica Exhibition of 1891. On 

 returning to the Province this summer, after a study ' extending over 

 some months, he at length completed his determinations of the various 

 coins which are now properly and minutely catalogued. Mr. Prichard 

 undertook this work as a labor of love, no doubt also interested in 

 many of the curious mementoes of antiquity turning up. And it is 

 fortunate for us, for I fear we could not well afford to pay the cost of 

 Mr. Prichard's very thorough work. I am glad, however, to be able 

 to intimate that the Council has just elected him to corresponding 

 membership in the Institute as a token of our appreciation of his 

 valuable services, and that he has graciously accepted the distinction. 



SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. 



On the flat above the Museum we have our new Provincial Scien- 

 tific Library, also under the charge of Mr. Piers, who deals with it as 

 a part of the Museum. This composite collection of publications, the 

 great nucleus of which is the original library of this Institute, has 

 already been reduced to order. The Government has added to it 

 modern works of science, both elementary and advanced, such books 

 as are absolutely necessary in such a library, to the value of $500 ; 

 and we have reason to hope that this intelligent appreciation of the 

 necessity of stimulating the scientific development of the thought and 

 industries of the Province will continue to be shown by a Government 

 which has done so much to make a start in a line deemed now so 

 essential by every progressive country 



PROVINCIAL PROGRESS. 



While at headquarters the growth of our scientific equipment is 

 satisfactory, the development of the Scientific spirit appears also to be 

 accelerating throughout the Province. Under the stimulating influ- 

 ence of Professor Haycock a branch or affiliated organization has been 

 instituted at Wolfville, which is thus making a bid for the second place 

 as a scientific centre in the Province. While the access to the library 

 of the Institute and to publication in our Proceedings and Transactions 

 will be of some value to the local institucion, it will also tend to 



