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SESSION OF 1916-1917. ,^EW yok 



(Vol. XIV Part y) BOTAMCA 



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55th Annual Business Meeting. 



Reading Room, N. S. Technical College, Halifax, 13th November) 



1916. 



The President, Prof. D. Eraser Harris, in the chair. 



Other members present: Prof. C. L. Moore, Prof. E. 

 Mackay, Dr. a. H. MacKay, Prof D. S. McIntosh, 

 C. B. Nickerson, Prof. H. L. Bronson, D. M. Ferguson, 

 W. L. Bishop, Prof. A. G. Nicholls, W. H. Prest, and 

 H. Piers. 



Presidential Address: (1) Obituary Notice; (2) The 

 Man of Science in the Communitj^ Today. — By Professor 

 David Eraser Harris, M. B., C. M., M. D., D. Sc, F. R. 

 S. E., F. R. S. C, Dalhousie University, Halifax. 



(1) Obituary Notice. 

 Onl}^ one member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Sci- 

 ence died during the past session. This was C. C. James, 

 Ll. D., C. M. G., who died suddenly while travelling on a 

 tramway car, June 23rd, 1916. He joined this Institute in 

 Dcember, 1896, as an associate member. 



Pftoc & Pavsa N. S. Im3t. Set., Vou X[V. Proc. I. 



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