HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF INSTITUTE. PIERS. 



Haliburton; Capt. Westcote Lyttleton; J. Matthew Jones; 

 Samuel Gray; Colonel [W. J.] Myers; Wm. Gossip; Lieut. 

 [Francis] Duncan, R. A., (Canada); J. Young; Rev. Alex. 

 Forrester, D. D., (Truro, marked " erased for non-payt. 

 adm. fee"); H. G. Flint (Yarmouth); W. Lyttleton; P. C. 

 Hill; Dr. Gesner (New York); Prof.' How, D. C. L. (Kings 

 College, Windsor); Rev. D. Honeyman (Antigonish, name 

 erased); Henry Poole; J. Hunter Duvar; and Rev. Dr. 

 Cramp (Wolfville). All were of Halifax or its vicinity, 

 except those otherwise mentioned. There are columns for 

 "date of election" and "date of admission" (the latter not 

 being filled in). I think the "date of admission" was the 

 time when a man qualified by the actual payment of the 

 admission fee. The dates given in the earlier printed lists 

 seem to have been the latter ones, and therefore do not 

 indicate the date of election, which has produced some 

 confusion in our ideas of when a man joined the Institute. 

 If these dates were accepted, we would be in the peculiar 

 position of believing that the society had no members when 

 it was organized. As the first council minute-book is 

 missing, we find it impossible after 1864 to say exactly when 

 a member was elected and sometimes have to take the time 

 when the fee was paid. There can be no doubt whatever 

 that of those mentioned in the preceding list, the following 

 did not pay admission fees, and cannot therefore be con- 

 sidered as original members: Lt. Duncan, Rev. Dr. Forres- 

 ter, and Rev. D. Honeyman, the latter coming up again for 

 election and being admitted on 3rd December, 1867. We 

 also find that Dr. Gesner was re-proposed on 2nd November, 

 1863. 



At the first ordinary meeting, held at Dalhousie College, 

 on 19th January, 1863, Dr. J. B. Gilpin had the honour of 

 reading the first paper, viz., on "The Common Herring of 

 Nova Scotia," followed by one by Captain (now Major- 

 General) Hardy, R. A., on the "Nocturnal Life of Animals 



