PROCEEDINGS. 



Treasurer, MAYNAKD BOWMAN, B. A. 



Corresponding Secretary, PROFESSOR EBENEZER MACKAY, 

 Ph. D. 



Recording Secretary and Librarian, HARRY PIERS. 



Councillors without office, PROFESSOR CLARENCE LEANDER 

 MOORE, M. A., F. R. S. C.; ALEXANDER McKAY, 

 M. A.; PROFESSOR DAVID FRASER HARRIS, M. D., 

 C. M., D. Sc., F. R. S. E.; DONALD SUTHERLAND 

 MclNTOSH, B. A., M. Sc.; CARLETON BELL NICKER- 

 SON, M. A.; PROFESSOR HOWARD LOGAN BRONSON, 

 Ph. D.; and WILLIAM HARROP HATTIE, M. D. 



Auditors, WATSON LENLEY BISHOP and WILLIAM Me- 

 KERRON. 



FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 



'Civil Engineering Lecture Room, Technical College, Halifax; 

 10th November, 191%. 



THE PRESIDENT, D. M. FERGUSSON, in the chair. 



DAVID FRASER HARRIS, M. B., C. M., M. D., D. Sc., 

 F. R- S. E., professor of physiology and histology, Dalhousie 

 University, Halifax, read a paper "On the Existence of a 

 Reducing Endo-Enzyme in Animal Tissues". (See Trans- 

 actions, p. 259). The subject was discussed by the PRESI- 

 DENT, Dr. A. H. MACKAY, PROF. MOORE, C. B. NICKERSON, 

 and PROF. E. MACKAY. 



A paper by HENRY S. POOLE, D. Sc., F. R. S. C., Guild- 

 ford, Surrey, Eng., on ll Senecio jacobcea and its parasite, 

 Callimorpha jacobcea: the Ragwort and the Cinnabar Moth," 

 with additional remarks thereon by the reader, was read 

 by DR. A. H. MACKAY. (See Transactions, p. 279). The 

 subject was discussed by DR. E. MACKAY, C. B. NICKERSON, 

 W. MACKERRON, and others; and it was agreed that some 

 steps should be taken to suppress such a noxious weed as 

 -the Ragwort. The matter was referred to the Council. 



