IXX PROCEEDINGS. 



during the year 1916, was 1,586. The total number in the 

 Science Library on 31st December, 1916, was 57,975. Of 

 these, 42,064 (about 723^^ per cent.) belong to the Institute, 

 and 15,911 to the Science Library proper. 126 books were 

 borrowed in 1916 besides those consulted in the library No 

 binding or purchasing has been clone by the library directly, 

 there being no money grant at its disposal. — The report was 

 received and adopted. 



The Council reported that on 26th September it had sent 

 a resolution to the Dominion Premier and the Minister of 

 Militia and Defence, requesting that in applying the Military 

 Service Act very special efforts be made to ensure that such 

 technically trained men as may be enlisted be drafted into 

 that particular branch of the service for which they -are 

 most nearly fitted by their training and experience in 

 civil life. Replies had been received, stating that the In- 

 stitute's representation would have due consideration. — - 

 The Council's action was approved by the meeting. 



Some discussion took place- on a subject referred to in the 

 President's address, and it was resolved that the question be 

 announced as a subject for discussion at the next ordinary 

 meeting, viz., Whether the Transactions be more particularity 

 confined to the publication of papers on subjects bearing more 

 or less directly on Nova Scotia, except in such non-local depart- 

 ments as chemistry and physics, as has been the practice in 

 the past: or whether the publication of papers on non-local 

 subjects generally be permitted. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensu- 

 ing year (1917-18): 



President, — Professor David Fraser Harris, M. B., 

 C. M., M. D., B. Sc. (LoND.), D. Sc, F. R. S. E., F. R. 

 S. C, ex offiico F. R. M. S. 



