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trusts they may prove interesting, both to those who have had a 

 tour through India and to those who intend coming, and serve 

 as a sort of bri^f popular botanical and folk-lore appendix to 

 guide-books which may not touch upon this part of sight-seeing 

 in detail. 



The foregoing paper was discussed by H PIERS, F. "W. W. 

 DOANE, DR. A. H. MACKAY, PROF. MOORE, and D. M. FERGUSON; 

 and a vote of thanks was passed to DR. BARBOUR for his interesting 

 paper, on motion of Messrs. Piers and McCallum. 



THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 



N. 8. Technical College, Halifax; 8th January, 1912. 



THE PRESIDENT, WATSON L. BISHOP, in the chair. 



It was announced that CAPTAIN J. H. BARBOUR, Royal Army 

 Medical Corps, F. L. S., of Jabalpur, C. P., India, had been duly 

 elected a corresponding member by the council on 28th December. 



HARRY PIERS, curator of the Provincial Museum, Halifax, 

 read a paper entitled "Brief Account of the Micmic Indians of 

 jova Scotia, and their Kemains," the subject being illustrated by 

 a typical set of specimens of their ancient and modern implements, 

 customs, etc. (See Transactions, p. 99). The paper was dis- 

 cussed by the PRESIDENT, DR. A. H. MACKAY, DR. E. MACKAY, 

 DR. A. STANLEY MACKENZIE, D. M. FERGUSON and WILLIAM 



McKERRON. 



FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



THE FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, DR. A. H. MACKAY, in the chair. 



H. JERMAIN MAUDE CREIGHTON, M. A., M. Sc. DR. Sc., F. 

 C. S., lecturer on physical chemistry, Dalhousie University, 

 Halifax, read a paper on "The Optical Activation of Racemic 

 Bromcamphor Carboxylic Acid by means of Catalysts: the Speci- 

 ficity of Catalysts." (See Transactions, p. 1). The subject was 

 discussed by PROF. E. MACKAY, DR. A. H. MACKAY, D. M. 

 FERGUSON, and PROFESSORS BRONSON, MACINTOSH and HARRIS. 



