X PROCEEDINGS. 



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

 His HONOR THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, for his 

 courtesy in permitting the use of the assembly room as a place of 

 meeting. 



Eeference was made to the desirability of having some exchange 

 system in Canada which would take the place of that of the Smith- 

 sonian Bureau of International Exchanges at Washington, which 

 latter bureau can not now undertake the work of forwarding book 

 packages to foreign countries owing to the magnitude to which 

 such work had grown of late years. The subject was referred to 

 the council. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year (1906- 

 1907) : 



President F. W. W. DOANE, C. E., ex officio F. R. M. S. 



Vice- Presidents PROFESSOR EBENEZER MACKAY, PH. D.; PROFESSOR 



J. E. WOODMAN, D. Sc. 



Treasurer J. B. MCCARTHY, B. A., M. Sc. 

 Corresponding Secretary A. H. MACKAY, LL. D., F. R,. S. C. 

 Recording Secretary HARRY PIERS. 

 Librarian HARRY PIERS. 

 Councillors without Office MAYNARD BOWMAN, B. A.; WATSON L. 



BISHOP; EDWIN GILPIN, JR., LL. D., F. R. S. C., I. S. O.; 



ALEXANDER McKAY; PROFESSOR FREDERIC H. SEXTON, B. Sc.; 



HENRY S. POOLE, D. Sc., F. R. S. C. ; WILLIAM MCKERRON. 

 Auditors PROFESSOR D. A. MURRAY, PH. D. ; R. McCoix, C. E 



A vote of thanks was presented to the retiring treasurer, W. 

 McKJERRON, for his services ; to H. PIERS, for his work as secre- 

 tary; and to the PRESIDENT, MR. DOANE. 



FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 



Assembly Room, Province Building, Halifax, 14th Jan., 1907. 

 THE PRESIDENT, MR. DOANE, in the chair. 

 It was reported that PHILIP A. FREEMAN, engineer, Halifax 

 Electric- Tram Co., Halifax, had been elected an ordinary member. 



A paper was read, entitled, " Notes on Mineral Fuels of Can- 

 ada," by H. W. ELLS, LL. I)., F. G. S. A., F. II, S. C., of the 

 Geological Survey, Ottawa. (See Transactions^ p. 61.) 



