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Councillors irithoiU uffice, — Alexan'dku Howard Mac Kay. 

 LJ.. 1)., F. 11. S. C; Professor Donald Sutherland 

 MclNTosir, M. Sc; Carleton Bell Nickerson, 

 M. A.; Professor Howard Logan Bronson, Ph. D.; 

 William Harrop Hattie, M. D.; Professor John 

 Cameron, M. D., D. Sc, F. R. S. E.; and Professor 

 Albert G. Nicholls, M. D., D. Sc, F. R. S. C. 

 Auditors, — George W. T. Irving and Donald M. Fergusson, 

 F. S. C. 

 Owing to Mr. Bowman's illness it was decided to ap- 

 point a ti'easurer to succeed him, and it was resolved that the 

 council nominate a suitable person for the office and report to 

 the next ordinary meeting for approval. . 



First Ordinary Meeting. 



Reading Room, N. S. Technical College, Halifax, N. S.; 



Monday, 13th November, 1916. 

 The President, Dr. D. Fraser Harris, in the chair. 



The first ordinary meeting of the session was held on the 

 conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting. 



A paper entitled "A New Evening Primrose {(Enothera 

 novae-scotiae)," by Reginald Ruggles Gates, Ph. D., F. L. S., 

 sometimg Lecturer in Biology and Cytology in the University 

 of London, Eng., and just now of New York, was presented by 

 Dr. a. H. MacKay. (See transactions, vol. XIV, pt. 2. 

 p. 14 L A vote of thanks was passed to Dr. Gates for 

 his communication. 



Second Ordinary Meeting. 



Physiological Lecture Room, Dalhousie College, Carleton St., 

 Halifax, N. S.; Tuesday, 12th December, 1916. 



The President, Dr. D. Fraser Harris, in the chair. 



It was reported that the council had, on 30th November, 

 elected the following members: — Robert Matheson, Ph. 



