OFFICERS ELECTED. XIX 



received during the first ten months of the present year (1910), 

 viz., January to October, inclusive. The total number of books 

 and pamphlets received by the Provincial Science Library (with 

 which those of the Institute are incorporated) during the year 

 1909, was 2204. The total number in the Science Library on 31st 

 December, 1909, was 38,988. Of these, 30,587 belong to the 

 Institute, and 8,401 to the Science Library proper. That is, about 

 78 per cent, are the property of the former, and about 22 per cent, 

 belong to the latter. 431 books were borrowed, besides the many 

 that were consulted in the library. No binding was done during 

 the year, there being no grant available for the purpose. From 

 13th May to 17th June, 1910, the whole Science Library was 

 moved from No. 201 Hollis Street, where it had been located since 

 its foundation in 1900, to the large new stack-room provided for 

 it in the Nova 'Scotia Technical College, Spring Garden Road, 

 and since then 'it had been entirely 'checked over, book by book, and 

 rearranged. The report was adopted. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year 

 (1910-11) : 



President, WATSON L. BISHOP, ex-officio F. R. M. S. 

 1st V ice-President, DONALD M. FERGUSSON. 

 2nd Vice-President, PHILIP A. FREEMAN. 

 Treasurer, MAYNARD BOWMAN, B. A. 



Corresponding Secretary, ALEXANDER H. MACKAY, LL. D., 

 F. R. S. C. 



Recording Secretary and Librarian, HARRY PIERS. 



Councillor* without office, ALEXANDER McKAY; PROFESSOR 

 FREDERIC H. SEXTON, B. So.; FRANCIS W. W. DOANE, 

 C. R: A. L. McCALLUM, B. Sc. ; PARKER R. COLPITT; 

 GEORGE R. BANCROFT, B. A.; and PROFESSOR EBENEZER 



M.\rK.\Y, : Pir. D. 



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On motion, a vote of thanks. was presented to the retiring 

 President, I)i?. F, MACKAY, for the unusually able and satisfactory 

 manner in whicli lie had filled the chair during his three years 

 term of offiee, the* limit of time allowed bv the by-laws. 



