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It was resolved that the thanks of the Institute be conveyed to the 

 HON. R. BOAK for his courtesy in permitting the use of the Legislative 

 Council Chamber for the meetings of the Society. Also resolved that 

 the thanks of the Institute be presented to the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, for his courtesy in granting the 

 Institute the privileges of the Department of International Exchanges 

 of the Institution. 



FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 9t7i November, 1896. 

 The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



PROFESSOR J. G. MACGREGOR, D. So., read a paper " On the Relation 

 of the Physical Properties of Aqueous Solutions to their State of 

 lonization." (See Transactions, p. 219). 



The paper was discussed by MR. A. McKAY, DR. A. H. 

 and others. 



SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 14th December, 1896. 

 The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



It was announced that the following gentlemen had been elected 

 members of the Society : LEE RUSSELL, ESQ., B. Sc., Normal School, 

 Truro ; T. C. McKAY, ESQ., B. A., Dartmouth ; REV. BROTHER PETER, 

 La Salle Academy, Halifax ; CHARLES TWINING, ESQ., Halifax ; and 

 C. C. JAMES, ESQ., Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Toronto. 



PROFESSOR E. E. PRINCE, Commissioner and General Inspector of 

 Fisheries for Canada, .delivered a lecture on "Recent Discoveries regard- 

 ing the Eggs and Young of Fishes." The lecture was illustrated by a 

 number of lantern views. 



Remarks upon the subject were made by DRS. REID, MAC!VAY, 

 SOMERS, and MURPHY, and also by the Chief Game Commissioner, C. S. 

 HARRINGTON, ESQ., Q. C. 



