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AxxuAL Business Meetinq. Qarden. 



Electrical Engineering Lecture Room, TecJinical College, 

 Halifax; 13th November, 1911. 



The Presidext, Watsox L. Bishop, in the chair. 



Other members present : Prof. E. Mackat, M. Bowmax, F. W. 

 W. DoAXE, P. E. CoLPiTT, ^Y. McKerrox, Prof. C. L. Moore, 

 Dr. H. Jermaix Creightox^, Prof. D. S. Mackixtosh, 

 Prof. C. D. Howe, H. S. Davis, and H. Piers. 



Presidextial Address: (1) Pieview of the Institute's Work, 

 (2) Death of Dr. E. ^\. Ells.— By Watsox L. Bishop. 



Gentlemen, — As we are entering ujoon another year it gives 

 me the opportunity to call your attention to the work of the year 

 which is gone, in order to stiniuate further improvement. 



We have at last, as an Institute, found an ideal home in the 

 Technical College — the provincial centre of Science applied. We 

 have not only comfortable but aesthetic rooms for meeting — large 

 or small to suit the size of the audience. We have at hand 

 facilities for illustrating papers, popular or scientific, to which for 

 nearly half a century the Institute has been a total stranger. We 

 have a large staff of scientific professors at home in the same 

 building and an increased staff of scientific men at Dalhousie 

 L'niversity. But all this wealth of facilities failed during the past 



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