. SPECIAL MEETING. Ixxiii 



Special Meeting. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Province Building, Halifax 

 13th May, 1918. 



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



Among those present were: His Honol the Lieut.- 

 GovERNOR and Mrs. Grant, President A. S. Mackenzie, 

 Prof. E. MacKay, Dr. A. H. MacKay, Prof. H. L. Bron- 

 soB, C. B. XiCKERSON, Maynard Bowman, Capt. John 

 Read, Mrs. Read, the Misses Read, Mrs. A. H. 

 MacKay, Mrs. E. D. MacAvity, Mrs. A. Lawson, H. Piers, 

 and other. 



President D. Fraser Harris, speaking from the Chair, said: 



"Your Honor, members of the Xova Scotian Institute 

 of Science, ladies and gentlemen: 



The Institute is fortunate in having acquired, through 

 the generosity of a friend who wishes to remain unknown, a 

 portrait of the late Professor J. Gordon MacGregor, a former 

 President of this Institute. The portrait, which is about to 

 be unveiled, was painted by the well-known artist, Mrs. 

 E. D. MacAvity. 



This evening we are further particularly fortunate in 

 having with us the nearest male relative — a nephew — of the 

 late Professor MacGregor, in the person of Capt. John Read, 

 whom I shall ask in a few minutes to unveil the portrait. 

 We hail this opportunity of welcoming Captain Read back 

 to his native land after his period of active and honourable 

 service against an active and dishonourable foe. 



But we are also able to congratulate ourselves on having 

 with us this evening a former student of Professor MacGregor, 

 Dr. A. Stanley MacKenzie, President of Dalhousie University 

 who will presently tell us something of the scientific life and 



