CXXVl PROCEEDINGS. 



followed, was taken part in by the President, Dr. A. H. 

 MacKay, Prof. E. Mackay, and C. B.Nickerson. 



Votes of thanks were passed to the authors of these 

 two papers, Messrs. Powers and Dodd. 



Fourth Ordinary Meeting. 



Civil Engineering Lecture Room, Technical College, Halifax; 

 9th March, 1914. 



The President, D. M. Fergusson, in the chair. 



John H. L. Johnstone, B. Sc, demonstrator of physics, 

 Dalhousie University, Halifax, read a paper, ''On the Elec- 

 trical Properties of Acetic Acid in the Solid and Liquid 

 Phases". (See Transactions, p. 191). The subject was 

 discussed by Dr. Bronson and President A. S. Mac- 

 kenzie. 



Professor David Fraser Harris, M. D., D. Sc, 

 F. R. S. E., Dalhousie University, read a paper on "Coloured 

 Thinking". (See Transactions, p. 308). The subject was 

 discussed by the President, Dr. E. Mackay, President 

 Mackenzie, H. Piers, Dr. A. H. MacKay, and others. 



Fifth Ordinary ]\Ieeting. 



Civil Engineering Lecture Room, Technical College, Halifax; 

 20th April; 1914. 



The Vice-President, Dr. A. H. MacKay, in the chair. 

 Professor L. C. Harlow, B. Sc, Provincial Normal 

 College, Truro, read a paper on "Analyses of Nova Scotian. 

 Soils". (See Transactions, p. 322). The subject was dis- 

 cussed by the Chairman, G. F. Murphy, Prof. D. S. Mc- 

 Intosh, W. McKerron., and H. Piers. 



