II PROCEEDINGS 



The Treasurer, D. J. AIatheson, presented his annual 

 report, dated 17th November, showing that the receipts were 

 31,974.16; the expenditures, 3875.70; balance on hand (in 

 current account), 31,098.46; and the balance at credit of reserve 

 fund, 3138.41; while the permanent endowment fund is 31,500. 

 It was pointed out that there is chargeable against the balance, 

 the cost of printing the Transactions, vol. 15, part 2, and sub- 

 sequent parts 3 and 4. The report was received and adopted. 



The Librarian's report was presented by Mr. Piers, show- 

 ing that 1.077 books and pamphlets had ben received during 

 the year 1921. The total number of books and pamphlets 

 received by the Provincial Science Library, with which that of 

 this Institute is incorporated, during 1921, was 1,407. The 

 total number in the Science Library on 31st December, 1921, 

 was 65,457. Of these, 48,125 belong to the Institute, and 17,332 

 to the Science Library proper. 117 books were borrowed in 

 1921, besides those consulted in the library. No binding or 

 purchasing has been done by the library directly, there being 

 no money grant at its disposal since 1907. The report was 

 received and adopted. 



Officers for the ensuing year (1922-23), were elected as 

 follows : 



President, — Prof. Carleton Bell Nickerson, M. A., ex 

 officio F. R. M. S. 



First Vice-President, — Prof. John Hamilton Lane John- 

 stone, M.Sc, Ph.D., M.B.E. 



Second Vice-President, — Stephen Galway Ritchie, B. A., 

 D. M. D. 



Tree-surer, — Donald J. jMatheson, B. Sc. 



Corresponding Secretary, — Prof. Donald Sutherland Mc- 

 Intosh, \^. Sc. 



Recording Secretary and Librarian, — Harry Piers. 



Councillors without office, — Alexander Howard MacKay, 

 LL. D., F. R. S. C; Prof. David Fraser Harris, 



