LIBRARIANS REPORT. Xlll 



extent to the fact that we send our Transactions to a large number of 

 institutions, such as libraries, museums, etc , which issue no pub- 

 lications which they can send us in return. In Canada, for example, 

 all libraries of whose existence we are aware are placed upon our dis- 

 tribution list. 



Seventy-five volumes, all being publications in English, have been 

 completed and bound during the year, Many others have been com- 

 pleted, but have had to be left unbound owing to lack of funds. 



So far as utility to members is concerned, the library still suffers 

 from the inconvenience of its quarters, The greater part of it is in 

 cases in a corridor of the Post Office building, the rest is in a room 

 courteously furnished for the purpose by the Governors of Dalhousie 

 College. The library is well arranged, so that the librarian can without 

 difficulty obtain any book which may be desired. But the lack of a 

 catalogue, and the hesitation of members to trouble the librarian to meet 

 them either at the Post Office or at the College, prevents members from 

 putting the library to its full use. It is to be hoped that, before very 

 long, the Institute may be able to afford to possess rooms of its own, with 

 a paid secretary and librarian, or that the scheme for the consolidation 

 of the Legislative and other libraries in the city, and the provision of a 

 building to accommodate both them and the Provincial Museum, which 

 has been urged upon the local government for some time, may be carried 

 out at an early date. 



The following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year : 



President PROFESSOR GEORGE LAWSON, LL. D. 



V ice-Presidents ALEX. McKAY, ESQ., and EDWIN GILPIN, JR., 



ESQ., LL. D. 



Treasurer W. C. SILVER, ESQ. 



Corresponding Secretary PROF. J. G. MACGREGOR, D. Sc. 

 Recording Secretary HARRY PIERS, ESQ. 

 Librarian MAYNARD BOWMAN, ESQ. 

 Councillors without office A. H. MACKAY, ESQ., LL. D. ; 



MARTIN MURPHY, ESQ, D. Sc. ; A. P. REID, ESQ., M. D. ; 



F. W. W.DOANE, ESQ., C. E. ; WILLIAM MCK.ERRON, ESQ. ; 



JOHN SOMERS, ESQ., M. D. ; WATSON L. BISHOP, ESQ. 



