Ixviii PROCEEDINGS. 



Alexander McKay, M. A., passed away at his home in 

 Dartmouth on 8th April, 1917. He became a member of the 

 Institute, 5th Feb., 1872, and for the most of the time there- 

 after was an active member of the Council. He was Recording 

 Secretary for twelve years — from 12 Oct., 1881 to 12 Nov., 

 1894, except during the year Oct., 1885 to Oct., 1886; and was 

 President from 8 Nov., 1897 to 20 Nov., 1899. The following 

 brief sketch of his remarkable career as one of Nova Scotia's 

 greatest educationists is from the Journal of Education, 

 April 1917;— 



"He was born at Earltown, Colchester County, 16th July, 1841 ; commen- 

 ced teaching in Pictou County, 1856; graduated from the Normal School at 

 Truro after two sessions, in 1859. He taught thereafter in the counties of 

 Digby, Colchester and Kings, resigning the principalship of the Wolfville 

 schools in 1872 for the piincipalship of the Dartmouth schools. 



"In 1881 he was appointed to "the department of mathematics and 

 science in the Halifax County Academy; and in 1884 became Supervisor of 

 the Halifax Schools which position he resigned at the end of 1916 owing to 

 illness. 



"He filled many other responsible positions simultaneously. As Advis- 

 ory Commissioner for Nova Scotia, he installed the Provincial Education 

 Exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893; and in 1902 was appointed by 

 the Provincial Government as a member of the Acadian Commission. He 

 filled for many years such positions as Director of the Victoria School of Art 

 and Design, Director of the Halifax Ladies' College, member of the Provincial 

 Exhibition Commission, Secretary of the Provincial Education Association for 

 about forty years, Lecturer in the first Technical Institute of Halifax in the 

 seventies of last century. Lecturer in Education in Dalhousie University, Presi- 

 dent of the Summer School of Science, President of the Nova Scotian Insti- 

 tute of Science, President of the Temperance Alliance, a Provincial Exami- 

 ner in Drawing and Educational Subjects. 



"No citizen had been more actively and u.sefully interested in public 

 affairs. The Halifax School Board raised a monument to his memory while 

 he was yet living in the fine Alexander McKay School." 



Henry Skeffington Poole, D. Sc, F. G. S., F. R. S. C, 

 was born at Stellarton, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1 August, 

 1844, and was a son of Henry Poole, a well-known mining 

 engineer of this province. He graduated from King's College, 

 Windsor, as B. A. in 1865, as M. A. in 1874, and as D. Sc. in 

 1903; and became an associate of the Ro3'^al School of 

 Mines, London. 



