XXXII PROCEEDINGS 



the Provincial Science Library of Nova Scotia under the con- 

 trol of the Department of Public Works and Mines, the scientific 

 works of the Legislative Library being added thereto. In 

 1913 the records show that it contained about 45,000 books 

 and pamplets. At the present time it contains over 70,000 

 of which 75 per cent belong to the Institute of Science. 



The Provincial Museum which Dr. MacKay has called 

 "the ward of the Government but the child of the Institute" 

 now contains 30,000 specimens two thirds of which are Nova 

 Scotian. 



This sketch would be incomplete without the mention of 

 at least a few of those who have been prominent in the In- 

 stitute and in the advancement of science in the Province in 

 the past, all of whom have gone to their reward. 



The Hon. Philip Cartaret Hill, D. C, D. C. L., first presi- 

 dent and at the time mayor of Halifax. 



John Matthew Jones, F, L. S., F. R. C. C, zoologist. 



John Somers, M.. D., botanist. 



John Bernard Gilpin, M. D., M. R. S. C, F. R. S. C, 

 zoologist. 



Robert Morrow, comparative anatomist and zoologist. 



Prof. George Lawson, botanist and chemist. 



Edwin Gilpin, Jr., LL. D., D. S. C, F. R. S. C, economic 

 geologist. 



Rev. John Ambrose, M. D., D. C. L., zoologist. 



Robert Grant Haliburton, M. A., D. C. L., F. R. C. S., 

 ethnologist (son of Sam Slick). 



Col. William. James Myers, meteorologist. 



Thomas Belt, geologist and naturalist. 



John Robert Willis, conchologist. 



Andrew Downs, ornithologist. 



Rev. David Honeyman, D. C. L., F. G. S., F. R. G. S., 

 geologist. 



