PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



^cotian Inartitnte of Science. 



SESSION OF 1909-1910. 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 

 House of Assembly, Province Building, Halifax; 



Stli November, 1909. 

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



Other members present : DR. A. PI. MACKAY, DR. A. STANLEY 

 MACKENZIE, MAYNARD BOWMAN, ALEXANDER MC!VAY, WATSON 

 L. BISHOP, F. W. W. DOANE, PARKER R. COLPITT, WILLIAM 

 MCKERRON, THOMAS C. MC!VAY. and HARRY PIERS. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADUKESS: (i) Decc-a^ea members; (2) Work of 

 the Institute; (3) The atomic theory. By PROFESSOR 

 EBENEZER MACKAY, Pn. D.. Dalhousie College, Halifax. 



Deceased Members. 



In reviewing the history of our Jast year preparatory to 

 beginning, as we do this evening, the work of a new session, it is 

 fitting that reference should first be made to the losses which our 

 membership has sustained through death. It is with profound 

 regret I have to record the death of four members: one associate 

 member, Mr. R. R. McLeod, and three corresponding ' members, 

 Mr. Charles Pickford, Dr. James Fletcher and Mr. Hugh Fletcher. 

 Of these the last named was, by virtue of his geological work in 

 the Province and his contributions to the Transactions of the 

 Society, associated in an especial way with the work of the Institute. 



Puoc. & TRANS. N. S. IXST. Sci., VOL. XII. PROC. R 



(Ivii) 



