Xlviii PROCEEDINGS. 



First Ordinary Meeting. 



Civil Engineering Lecture Room, N. S. Technical College, 



Halifax; 9th December, 1912. 



The First Vice President, Dr. A. H. MacKay, in the 

 chair. 



It was announced that J. H. L. Johnstone, demonstrator 

 of physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, had been duly 

 elected an ordinary member. 



Harry Piers, curator of the Provincial Museum, Halifax, 

 read a paper on "The Occurrence of European Birds in Nova 

 Scotia," and exhibited a specimen of the European Widgeon 

 recently taken here. (See Transactions, page 228.) 



Watson L. Bishop read a paper entitled "A Curious 

 Lightning Freak." (See page 240.) The subject was dis- 

 cussed by the Chairman, Mr. Piers, Mr. Colpitt, Prof. 

 Bronson, Mr. Barnes, and Prof. Eraser Harris, some 

 of whom gave accounts of remarkable lightning effects as 

 observed by themselves. 



On motion of Prof. Mackay and Mr. Nickerson it 

 was resolved that the Recording Secretary be requested 

 to prepare for the Transactions a sketch of the history of the 

 Institute during the past fifty years, with biographical notes 

 on those wdio had assisted materially in its work. 



Second Ordinary Meeting. 



[Commemoration Meeting, 1862-1912.] 



Civil Engineering Lecture Boom, N. S. Technical College, 

 Halifax; Monday, '20th January, 1913. 



The Nova Scotian Institute of Science met at 8 p. m. to 

 commemorate the completion of half a century's work of 

 the society, which had been organized at Halifax on the 31st 



