CONTENTS 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Session OF 1910-1911: page 



Annual Meeting i 



Presidential address: (1) Progress of the Institute; (2) some 



achievements of chemical synthesis. — By Professor E. Mackay ii 



Treasurer's Report xviii 



Librarian's Report xviii 



Officers elected for 1910-1911 xix 



Ordinary Meetings xx 



Mineral occurrences in granite at New Ross, Lunenburg County, 



N. S.— By A. L. McCallum (Title only) xxi 



On the effect of gravity on the concentration of a solute. By 



Harold S. Davis. (See Transactions p. 291) xxi 



Rare fish in Nova Scotia. — By Harry Piers. (Title only) xxii 



Session OF 1911-1912: 



Annual Meeting xxiii 



Presidential address: (1) Review of the Institute's Work; (2) 



Death of R. W. Ells. — By Watson L. Bishop xxiii 



Treasurer's Report xxvi 



Librarian's Report xxvi 



Officers elected for 1911-1912 xxvii 



Ordinary Meetings -. : xxvii 



Sacred plants of India. — By Captain J. H. Barbour xxviii 



Session OF 1912-1913: 



Annual Meeting and Reports < xlv 



Commemoration Meeting — Fiftieth Anniversary xlviii 



Historical Papers, 1862-1912. — By Harry Piers liii 



Pioneer Naturailists — ten hii 



Hahfax Mechanic's Institute hx 



Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science Ixi 



Library of the Institute Ixxv 



Provincial Museum Ixxvii 



Biographical Sketches Ixxx 



Deceased Presidents — eight Ixxxi 



Other Prominent Deceased members — twenty-one Lxxxix 



List of Officers, 1872 to 1912 ox 



(iii) 



