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LIST OF PRESIDENTS. 



LIST OF PRESIDENTS 



OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE, AFTERWARDS 

 THE NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, SINCE ITS 



FOUNDATION IN 1862. 



Term of Office. 



Hon. Philip Carteret Hill, i). e. r 31 Dec. 1862 to 26 Oct. 1863 



John Matthew Jones, F. L. s., F. it. s. c 26 Oct. 1863 " 8 Oct. 1873 



John Bernard Giipin, M. A., M. D., M. R. c. s 8 Oct. 1873 " 9 Oct. 1878 



William Gossip 9 Oct. 1878 " 13 Oct. 1880 



John Somers, M. D 13 Oct. 1880 " 26 Oct. 18S3 



Robert Morrow 26 Oct. 1883 " 21 Oct. 1885 



John Somers, M. D 21 Oct. 1885 " 10 Oct. 1^8 



Prof. James Gordon MacGregor, M. A., D. sc., F.R.S.. F.R.S.O. 10 Oct. 1888 " 9 Nov. 189* 



Martin Murphy, c. K., n sc., I. s. o 9 Nov. 1891 " 8 Nov. 189*) 



Prof. George Lawson, PH. D., LL. D.. F. i. c., F. R. s. c 8 Nov. 189 5 " 10 Nov. 1895 



Edwin Giipin, Jr., M. A., LL. n., D. so., F. G. s., F. R. s. c., i.s.o.18 Nov. 18!)5 " 8 Nov. 1897 



Alexander McKay M. A 8 Nov. 1897 " 20 Nov. 1899 



Alexander Howard MacKay, B. A., B. sc., LL. D., F. it. s. c.. .20 Nov. 1899 " 21 Nov. 1902 

 Henry Skeffingtou Poole, M A., D. so., A. R. s. M., F. G. s., 



F. R. s. C 24 Nov. 1902 " 18 Oct. 190.") 



Francis William Whitney Doane, c. E 18 Oct. 1905 " 1 1 Nov. 1907 



Prof. Ebenezer Mackay, PH. r> 11 Nov. 1907 " 14 Nov. 1910 



NOTE Since 1879 the presidents of the Institute have been ex-officw Fellows of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society. 



The first general meeting of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science was 

 held at Halifax, on 31st December, 1862. On 24th March, 1890, the name of the society 

 was changed to the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, and it was incorporated by an 

 act of the legislature in the same year. 



The oundation of the Halifax Mechanics' Institute on 27th December, 1831. and of 

 the Nova Scotian Literary and Scientific Society about 1859 (the latter published its 

 Transactions from 4th January to 3rd December, 1859) had led up to the establishment 

 of the N. S. Institute of Natural Science in December, 1862. 



