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including many which illustrated papers read before it. 

 Further reference will be made to this later on. 



About 1867 a grant of $200.00 was first received by the 

 Institute from the Provincial legislature, and $100.00 was 

 granted in each of the two succeeding years at least. The 

 Legislature for many years financially aided the, society, 

 and in 1890 this grant was raised from $400.00 to $500.00 

 to meet the cost of printing a thousand copies of the Trans- 

 actions. 



It should be noted in passing, that in the winter of 1872-3 

 the sessions of a so-called School of Science were held in 

 connection with the Provincial Museum, Dr. Honeyman 

 lecturing on zoology; and that on 1st March, 1878, there 

 was established at Halifax a Technological Institute, for 

 instruction in technical subjects, of which Prof. Lawson was 

 president, Dr. Somers, vice-president, and Dr. Honeyman, 

 secretary and treasurer, with a competent corps of instructors, 

 nearly all of whom were members of the Institute of Science. 

 It had a class-room in the Stairs building, 74 Bedford Row, 

 but some classes were held in the Museum and elsewhere. 

 After three sessions, it passed out after May, 1880, for lack of 

 funds. It was the unsuccessful forerunner of the present 

 Technical College, and yet I never heard its name mentioned 

 during all the agitation leading up to the foundation of the 

 latter institution. 



The visit to Halifax in May, 1873, of H. M. S. Challenger 

 with Prof. Wyville Thomson on board, gave our members 

 an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the most 

 modern and improved methods of marine research, and 

 stimulated such as were interested in that subject, as did also 

 the sojourn here, from August to October, 1877, of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission's ships with their corps of specialists. 



The year 1874-5, unfortunately, is spoken of as our year 

 of greatest intellectual dearth, judging by the small number 

 of papers submitted, namely eight, {vide MacGregor's 



