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, Ph. D ii 



Treasurer's Report , xviii 



Librarian's Report xviii 



Officers elected for 1910-1911 xix 



Oedinaey Meetings xx 



Mineral occurrences in granite at New Ross, Lunenburg- 



County, N. S. — By A. L. McCallum, B. Sc. (Title only) . . xxi 

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



Harold S. Davis, B. A. (See Transactions p. 291) xxi 



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



Transactions, Session of 1910-1911: 



The optical activation of racemic brom-camphor carboxylic 



acid by means of catalysts: The specificity of catalysts. 



— By Henry Jermain Maude Creighton, M.A., M.Sc, D. Sc. 1 



A suggestion for anthropological work in Nova Scotia. — By 



Walter H. Brest 35 



The conductivity of rosanaline hydro-chloride in water and 



certain organic solvents. — By Harold S. Davis, B. A 40 



Comparisoi. of monthly mean temperatures, Halifax, N. S., 



and Plymouth, G. B.— By Henry S. Poole, D. Sc, i\ R. S. C. 52 



Recent meteorological notes. — By F. W. W. Doane, M. Can. 



Soc. C. E 53 



Appendix I: 



List of members, 1910-1911 i 



List of presidents of the Institute since its foundation in 1862. iv 



