ORDINARY MEETINGS. Clll 



FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 8th November, 1897. 

 The PRESIDENT, MR. McKAY, in the chair. 



The SECRETARY announced that DR. W. HENRY DOBIE, of Chester, 

 England, had been elected a Corresponding Member of the Institute. 



A paper "On the Calculation of the Conductivity of Aqueous 

 Solutions containing Potassium and Sodium Sulphates," by E. H 

 ARCHIBALD, ESQ., Physical Laboratory, Dalhousie College, was read by 

 DR. MACGREGOR. (See Transactions, p. 291). 



SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, 13th December, 1897. 

 The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



It was announced that R. R. McLEOD, ESQ., of Brookfield, N. S., had 

 been elected an Associate Member. 



DR. MACGREGOR, Corresponding Secretary, laid before the Institute 

 an invitation to attend the Centenary of the Hanover Geological Society. 



DR. MACGREGOR also reported progress in removing the Library to 

 Dalhousie College. 



E. H. ARCHIBALD, ESQ., Physical Laboratory, Dalhousie College, read 

 a paper "On the Relation of the Physical Properties of Certain Complex 

 Solutions to their state of lonization." (See Transactions, p. 335). 



The paper was discussed by DR. MACGREGOR and PROF. E. MACKAY. 

 The thanks of the meeting were conveyed to MR. ARCHIBALD. 



A paper on " Glacial Clays in New Jersey, with correlation of them 

 elsewhere," by ARTHUR M. EDWARDS, ESQ., M. D., of Newark, N. J., 

 was read by De. GILPIN. 



