NEW Yoi^K 

 BOTANICAL 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SESSION OF 1920-1921 



(Vol. XV. Part 3) 



59th Annual Business Meeting. 



Physiological Lecture Room, Dalhousie College, Carleton St., 

 Halifax, 8th November, 1920. 



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

 members present: Dr. J. Cameron, D. J. Matheson, Prof. 

 D. S. McIntosh, Dr. A. H. MacKay, Prof. C. B. Nickerson, 

 Dr. D. Fraser Harris. Dr. S. G. Ritchie, Dr. J. H. L. John- 

 stone, E. W. Todd, Dr. F. W. Ryan, Dr. B. R. Coysh, F. C. 

 Churchill (Wolfville), P. R. Colpitt and H. Piers. 



The President opened the session with remarks on the 

 progress of the Society during the past year. He referred to 

 the greatly increased cost of printing the Transactions and to 

 the decision arrived at by the Council at its meeting of 13th 

 October, that first right to publication would be given to papers 

 deahng with local natural science, and second place would be 

 given to other classes of scientific work by active members 

 residing in Nova Scotia. The Council had also decided to 

 exercise its right to have abstracts made of papers, if necessary. 

 He also referred to the loss the Society had sustained through 

 the death of its past-president. Dr. Ebenezer Mackay, on 

 6th January, 1920, and of Dr. A. P. Reid, on 26th February 

 1920. 



The Treasurer, Mr. Matheson, presented his financial 

 report for the year ended October 1920. showing that the re- 

 ceipts were $1,939.48, the expenditures $1,225.15, and the bal- 



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