VI PROCEEDINGS. 



and 1,424 during the past nine months of the present j^ear, 

 1914, viz. January to September inclusive. The total 

 number of books and pamphlets received by the Provincial 

 Science Library (with which that of the Institute is incor- 

 porated) during the year 1913, was 2,928. The total number 

 in the Science Library on 31st December, 1913, was 51,810. 

 Of these, 37,614 (about 72 per cent.) belong to the Institute, 

 and 14,196 to the Science Library proper. Four hundred 

 books were borrowed, besides those consulted in the library. 

 No binding or direct purchasing has been done during the 

 year. The report was received and adopted. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers for the 

 ensuing year (1914-15): 



President, — Donald MacEachern Fergusson, F, C. S., 

 ex officio F. R. M. S. 



1st Vice-President, — Professor David Fraser Harris, 

 M. D., C. M., D. Sc, F. R. S. E. 



2nd Vice-President, — President Arthur Stanley Mac- 

 kenzie, PhD., F. R. S. C. 



Treasurer, — Maynard Bowman, B. A. 



Corresponding Secretary, — Professor Ebenezer Mackay, 

 Ph.D. 



Recording Secretary and Librarian, — Harry Piers. 



Councillors without office, — Alexander Howard MacKay, 

 Ll. D., F. R. S. C; Professor Clarence L. Moore, 

 M. A., F. R. S. C; Alexander McKay, M. A.; 

 Professor Donald Sutherland McIntosh, M. Sc; 

 Carleton Bell Nickerson, M. A.; Professor 

 Howard Logan Bronson, Ph. D.; and William 

 Harrop Hattie, M. D. 



Auditors, — Watson Lenley Bishop and William McKerron. 

 On motion, the President, the two Vice-Presidents, 



Prof. Bronson, Prof. Sexton, and Dr. Hattie were 



appointed a committee to interview the Government in 



regard to the restoration of the financial grant to the Institute. 



