PROCEEDINGS 



i^oba ^cotian Snsititute of Science 



SESSION OF 1917-1918. , ,.^ 



(Vol. XIV Part 4) NEW VO»K 



»«Tanical 



56th Annual Session. 



Annual Business Meeting. 



Cii'il Engineering Lecture Room, N. S. Technical College, 

 Halifax, lOlh October, 191.7. 



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



Other members present: Dr. E. MacK.ay, Dr. A. H. Mac- 

 Kay, Dr. H. L.. Bronson, Prof. D. S. McIntosh, D. M. 

 Fergusson, C. B. Nickerson, Dr. J. Cameron, G. W. T. 

 Irving, H. B. Vickery and H. Piers. 



It was announced that Dr. Edward Blackadder, Halifax, 

 has been elected an ordinary member on 26th September, 

 1917. 



Presidential Address: by Dr. D. Fraser Harris. 



Speaking extem'pore the President referred to the general 

 work of. the Institute durinc; the past year, its prospects 

 for the present year, and called attention to the loss of two 

 eminent members of whom brief biographical sketches follow: 



Proc. & Trans. N' S. Inst. Sji., Vol. XIV. Proc. I. 



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