PROCEEDINGS 



Nicotian Institute of (Science. 



SESSION OK 1895-6. 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 

 Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax f llth November, 1895. 



The first VICE-PRESIDENT, ALEXANDER McKAY, Esq., in the chair. 



On opening the meeting the chairman announced to the Institute 

 the sudden death of its late President, PROF. GEORGE LAWSON, 

 Ph. D., LL. D., which had occurred on the previous evening at his 

 residence in Halifax. 



After reference had been made by the chairman and other members 

 of the Institute to the great loss which the Institute had sustained, it 

 was unanimously resolved that the Institute, as a body, should attend the 

 funeral of its late President. 



It was further unanimously resolved that, as a mark of respect to 

 the late President, the Annual Meeting should be adjourned until the 

 18th of November. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 18th November, 1895. 

 ALEXANDER McKAY, Esq., VICE-PRESIDENT, in the chair. 



PROP. J. G. MACGREGOR, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, addressed the 

 Institute as follows : 



Mr. Vice-President, It is my duty, on this occasion, to bring before 

 the Institute some account of the life and work of members deceased 



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