NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



UAHDRN 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



utiau institute uf ^^cience 



SESSION OF 1919 - 1920 



(Vol. XV, Part 2) 



58th Annual Business Meeting, 

 Physiological Lecture Room, Dalhousie College, Carleton St., 

 Halifax, 10th November, 1919. 



The President, Dr. H. L. Bronson, in the chair. Other 

 members present: Prof. C. J. Connolly, Dr. E. Mackay, 



D. J. Matheson, Dr. a. H. Mackay, Prof. D. S. McIntosh. 

 C. B. Nickerson, Dr. J. Cameron, Dr. D. Fraser Harris, 

 Dr. J. H. L. Johnstone, P. R. Colpitt, Dr. W. W. Woodbury. 



E. Chesley Allen, Dr. S. G. Ritchie, B. R. Coysh, F. C. 

 Churchill and H. Piers. 



The President in his opening remarks stated that the soc- 

 iety's efforts to increase its membership had met with success, 

 the number of members being nearly doubled. The member- 

 ship list had also been generally revised. The council was con- 

 sidering what might be done by the society to further the cause 

 of science in a naore popular and general way, and a committee 

 had been appointed to deal with the subject, but was not ready 

 to report. Reference was made to the loss sustained during the 

 year through the death of Major General Hardy, who had 

 been the last surviving original member of the Institute, 1862, 

 and who died at Dover, England, on 11th April. 1919; of Dr. 

 Donald A. Campbell, who died at Halifax on 7th January. 

 1919; and of Rev. Robert Laing, who died on 19th April, 1919. 



Pk08. & Tkax. N. S. Inst. Sci., Vol. XV. Paoc. Ill 



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