PROCEEDI NGS 



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llotia ^cotiiiii iiuititutc of .Science- 



SIi:SSION OF 1914-15. 



(VOLUME XIV, PART 1.^ 



Annual Business Meeting. 



Civil Engineering Lecture .Room, Technical College, Halifax. 

 21st October, 1914. 



The President, Donald M. Fergusson, F. C. S.. in the 

 chair. 



Other members present: Dr. A. H. MacKay, Prof. E. 

 Mackay, Dr. D. Fraser Harris, M. Bowman, Prof. 

 H. L. Bronson, Prof. D. S. McIntosh, W. McKerron, and 

 H. Piers. 



Presidential Address: (1) Review of the Institute's Work 

 during the Year, (2) Remarks on Valency, (3) General 

 Remarks. — By Donald M. Fergusson, F. C. S, 



It is the duty of your president at the annual meeting 

 to speak of members deceased. That, on this occasion, is 

 unnecessary, for, so far as I know, we have suffered no loss 

 by death this session. 



Proc. & Trans. N. S. Inst. Sci., Vol. XIV, Pr. 1. Puoc. — A 



