PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



VOL. ni. PART III. 



Provincial Museum, Oct. dtJi, 1872. 



Anniversary Meeting. 



J. M. Jones, Esq., President^ in the Chair, 

 Inter Alia. 



A VOTE of thanks to the President for his very valuable services was pro- 

 posed and carried by acclamation. 



The following office-bearers for the next year were then elected. 



President — J. M. Jones, Esq. 



Vice Presidents — Dr. Gilpin, and Dr. Lawson. 



Treasurer — W. C. Silver, Esq. 



Secretaries — Rev. Dr. Honeyman, and Angus Ross, Esq. 



Council — Dr. DeWolfe, Rev. Dr. Warren, Fred. Allison, Esq., 

 A. Rutherford, Esq., Wm. Gossip, Esq., Dr. Reid, Adam McKay, Esq., 

 W. C. Silver, Esq., Sheriff Bell, Dr. Lawson, Rev. Dr. Honeyman, 

 Dr. Gilpin, Angus Ross, Esq. 



A vote of thanks to the Halifax Press, for insertion of notices of meeting, 

 gratuitously, and for readiness shown in the insertion of communications relat- 

 ing to the work of the Institute, was proposed and carried unanimously. 



B. Cochran, Esq., Postmaster, Halifax, Henry Poole, Esq., Inspector of 

 Mines, Henry Y. Clarke, Esq., were proposed as members, — Jabez Turner, 

 Esq., of Madden Grange, Peterboro, England, a Corresponding Member. 



Dr. Reid then made a few observations on the establishment of Salt and 

 Fresh water Aquaria. He showed the desirableness of having these valuable 

 auxiliaries to Public Instruction. 



Members were agreed in considering Aquaria desirable, but were not pre- 

 pared to recommend their establishment by the Institute. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 11, 1872. 



Dr. Gilpin, V. P., in the Chair. 

 It was announced that Messrs. B, Cochran, Henry S. Poole, and 

 Henry Y. Clarke, proposed as members at last meeting, and Mr. Jabez 

 Turner, proposed as Corresponding Member, had been duly elected by the 

 Council. 



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