ORDINARY MEETINGS. XC1 



SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 12th April, 1897. 

 The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



A communication was read from the Royal Society of London 

 announcing that at a recent meeting of that body it had been unani- 

 mously resolved that a fun;l, to he called the Victoria Research Fund, 

 be established, to be administered by representatives of the various 

 scientific societies, for the encouragement of research in all branches of 

 science. The Society wished to know if the scheme met with the 

 approval of the Institute. 



Resolved, That this Institute, having heard the communication of the 

 22nd February, addressed to its President by the President of the Royal 

 Society of London, in reference to the proposal to establish a Research 

 Fund in commemoration of the present sixtieth year of the reign of 

 Her Gracious Majesty the Queen, express its cordial approval of the 

 proposal. 



Resolved, further, That while the Institute is of opinion that no 

 large contribution to the proposed fund can be expected from the 

 Province of Nova Scotia, whose men of science are few, and whose 

 industries have not yet reached the stage in which the advantages of 

 scientific research become manifest, the Institute will he glad to co-operate 

 with other scientific societies in Canada in bringing the claims of the 

 proposed fund to the notice both of their members and of other citizens 

 who may be expected to become contributors. 



