ORDINARY MEETINGS. llll 



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

 of meeting. 



Attention was drawn to the approaching fiftieth anniversary 

 of the foundation of the Institute, and it was resolved that the 

 incoming council present at a future meeting a preliminary report 

 on the subject of an appropriate celebration of such an anniversary. 

 The following were elected officers for the ensuing year (1908- 

 1909) : 



President, PROFESSOR EBENEZER MACKAY, PH. D., ex- 



officio F. E. M. S. 



1st Vice-President, PROFESSOR J. EDMUND WOODMAN, D. Sc. 

 2nd yice-President, WATSON L. BISHOP. 

 Treasurer, MAYNARD BOWMAN, B. A. 

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

 Recording Secretary and Librarian, HARRY PIERS. 

 Councillors without office, ALEXANDER McivAv; PROFESSOR 

 FREDERIC H. SEXTON, S. B.; H. W. JOHNSTON, C. E. ; 

 PROFESSOR A. STANLEY MACKENZIE, PH. D.; PHILIP 

 A. FREEMAN; F. W. W. DOANE, C. E.; A, L. MCCALLUM, 

 S. B. 

 Auditors,--Bx>VEBiGK McCoLL, C. E. ; WILLIAM MCKERRON. 



FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 



Geological Lecture Room, Dallwusic College, Halifax; 16th 

 November, 1908. 



THE PRESIDENT, DR. EBENEZER MACKAY, in the chair. 



It was announced that F. H. McLEARN, Halifax, and W. S. 

 STAPLETON, supervisor of public schools, Dartmouth, had been 

 elected ordinary members. 



PROFESSOR J. EDMUND WOODMAN, D. Sc., Dalhousie College, 

 read a paper on "Eecent Iron and Limestone Investigations in 

 Nova Scotia,*' the subject being illustrated by specimens, maps and 

 photographs. The paper was discussed by the PRESIDENT, H. 

 PIERS, PROFESSOR F. H. SEXTON, T. YARDY HILL and others. 



