APPENDIX. 



CONVERSAZIONE. 



A Conversazione was held in the New Provincial Building, on Thurs- 

 day evening, February 12, 1874. 



The Rev. Dr. Warren exhibited a beautiful series of dissolving views with 

 Oxycalcium Lantern. 



The Members of the Institute and their friends, having then taken their 

 places in the Long Room of H. M. Customs, which had been kindly given up 

 for the occasion by (the late) E. M. McDonald, Esq., Collector. 



His Honor the Liexjtenant Governor the Patron of the Institute, who 

 occupied the Chair, made an appropriate and admirable address upon the 

 work of the Institute, and urged strongly its claims upon the support and 

 encouragement' of the people of Nova Scotia. He showed the great impor- 

 tance of the work and gave prominence to the fact, that the workers gave 

 their time and energies without remuneration, and rather with pecuniary 

 sacrifice. He also showed that by their Publications they were disseminating 

 at home and abroad a great amount of valuable information upon the 

 resources of the Province. 



The Hon. Chairman then called upon Dr. Honeyman, who gave a short 

 lecture " On the Deep Sea." He gave an account of the progress of enquiry 

 into the character of the depths and their inhabitants, as exhibited especially 

 by the expeditions of H. M. S. S. Porcupine, Lightniny and Challenger. — The 

 observations made v/ere illustrated by specimens from the Museum Collection, 

 particularly those kindly presented by Prof. Wyville Thomson when the 

 Challenger visited Halifax. 



Dr. Gilpin being called upon read an interesting and eloquent lecture 

 *' On a Fossil Whale," which had been excavated in the previous Summer in 

 the Jacquet River section of the Intercolonial Railway. The descriptive 

 part of the lecture will be found in the Transactions. 



The Rev. Dr. Warren succeeded. The Reverend gentleman remarked 

 that that evening they had been invited to look at God's wonders in the deep 

 sea ; and said, he would now direct the attention of his audience to another 

 ocean in which we live, move, and have our being, claiming moreover for it an 

 importance, magnitude, and utility second to none in the universe. He then 

 pointed out in graphic language its numerous uses in the economy of nature ; 

 aud further showed how the health and happiness of animate creation are 

 necessary involved in the purity of its life-giving, life -sustaining, or life- 

 destroying fluid. 



