XVI LIST OF PRESIDENTS. 



LIST OF PRESIDENTS 



OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OP NATURAL SCIENCE, AFTERWARDS 

 THE NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, SINCE ITS 



FOUNDATION ON 31ST DECEMBER, 1862. 



Term of Office. 



Hon. Philip Carteret Hill, D. c. L 31 Dec. 1862 to 26 Oct. 1863 



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



John Bernard Gilpin, 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. 1883 



Robert Morrow 26 Oct. 1883 " 21 Oct. 1885 



John Somers, M. D 21 Oct. 1885 " 10 Oct. 188g 



Prof. James Gordon MacGregor, M. A., r>. so., F.H.S.. F.R.S.C. 10 Oct. 1888 " 9 Nov. 1891 



Martin Murphy, c. E., D. sc , I. s. o 9 Nov. 1891 " 8 Nov. 1893 



Prof. George Lawson, PH. D., LL. D.. F. i. c., F. R. s. c. 8 Nov. 1893 '.' 10 Nov. 1891 



Edwin Gilpin, Jr., M. A., LL. D., D. sc., F. G. S., F. K. s. c., i.s.o.18 Nov. 1895 " 8 Nov. 1893 



Alexander McKay M. A 8 Nov. 1897 " 20 Nov. 1895 



Alexander Howard MacKay, B. A.. B. sc., LL. D., F. R. s. c.. .20 Nov. 1899 " 24 Nov. 1907 

 Henry Skefflngton Poole, M A., D. sc., A. R. s. M., F. G. s., 



F. R. s. c 24 Nov. 1902 " 18 Oct. 1905 



Francis William Whitney Doane, C. E 18 Oct. 1905 " 11 Nov. 1907 



Prof. Ebenezer Mackay, PH. D 11 Nov. 1907- " 12 Dec. 1910 



Watson L. Bishop 12 Dec. 1910 " 



NOTE Since 1879 the presidents of the Institute have been ex-officio 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 foundation 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. 



