ii PROCEEDINGS. 



4. Mining Ts it a Science? By W. E. LISHMAN, M. A.. 



M. INST. M. E. 



5. Additions to the List of Nova Scotia Fungi. -By DR. A. H. 



MACKAY. 



6. Halifak Water Works. By H. W. JOHNSTON, C. E. 



7. The Oil Fields of Eastern Canada. By DR. E. W. ELLS. 



8. The Frost and Drought of 1905. By F. W. W. DOANE. 



9. Eels in Water Pipes and Their Migration. By WATSON L. 



BISHOP. 

 ,10. Notes on Protective Coloring. By FRANK H. EEID. 



11. The Grignard Synthesis: Action of Phenyl Magnesium 



Bromide on Camphor. By H. JERMAIN CREIGHTON. 



12. Contribution to the Study of Hydro xylamine. By G. M. 



JOHNSTON MACKAY, B. A. 



13. Water Powers on the Mersey River, N. S. By W. G. 



YORSTON, C. E. 



14. The Damage done to Timber by Teredo navalis and Limnoria 



lignorum. By R. McCoLL, C. E. 



15. Pbenological Observations., Canada, 1905. By DR. A. H. 



MACKAY. 



1(>. Water-rolled Weed-balls. By DR. A. H. MACKAY. 



Of the thirteen authors who gave the Institute the benefit 

 of their labors and observation, six presented papers for the 

 first time, a fact which in itself is evidence of some pro- 

 gress. We cannot congratulate ourselves, however, that we are in 

 the healthy condition that every member who has the best interest 

 of the Institute at heart could wish. We have been depending too 

 much on the work of the older members, and in consequence of the 

 willingness with which they devote their time and energy to the 

 arduous demands of each session, the enlistment of new workers 

 has been somewhat neglected. While the interest of the older 

 active members has not abated, their work could be lightened by 

 the assistance of the younger members, who, by a little effort, 

 might relieve the strain upon the knowledge and active intellect of 

 those whose wonderful. energy in the past has proved equal to the 



