PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS HARRIS. Ixix 



As an eminent mining engineer he directed coal mining in 

 Cape Breton, and silver mining in Utah, U. S. A. He was 

 appointed inspector of coal mines in Nova Scotia from 1872 

 to 1878. He then became chairman of the Board of Examin- 

 ers for iMining Certificates and general manager of the Acadia 

 Coal Company from Avhich he retired with a distinguished 

 testimonial in 1901. He was president of the Mining Society 

 of Nova Scotia, a member of the Canadian Society of Civil 

 Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society and a member of the Federated In- 

 stitute of Mining Engineers. He was a contributor to various 

 scientific and technical journals, to the reports of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey, the Journal of the Geological Society, 

 and especiall}^ to the Transactions of our Nova Scotian In- 

 stitute of Science, the last contribution being on "Senecio 

 Jacobaea and Calli)norpha Jacohaea (The Cattle-Killing Rag- 

 wort and the Cinnabar Moth)" which will be found at page 

 279 of Volume XIII (Session of 1913-1914). 



H-e became a member of the Institute of Science on 11 Nov., 

 1872, and was its President from 24 Nov., 1902 to 18 Oct., 

 1905. He retired to England, thereafter, where he died on 

 31 March, 1917, at his home in Guildford, Surre^^ 



The Treasurer, Mr. Irving, presented his annual report, 

 showing that the receipts for the year ended 30th Sept., 1917, 

 were $810.40; the expenditure, $383.40; and the balance on 

 hand, $427.00. — The report was received and adopted. 



The Librarian's report was presented by Mr. Piers, 

 showing that 1,369 books and pamphlets had been received 

 through the exchange-list during the year 1916; and 841 have 

 been received during the first nine months of the present j^ear 

 1917, namely January to September inclusive. The total num- 

 ber of books and pamphlets received by the Provincial Science 

 Library (with which that of the Institute is incorporated) 



