ORDINARY MEETINGS. liii 



courtesy in permitting the use of the assembly room as a place 

 of meeting. 



Attention was drawn to the approaching fiftieth anniversary 

 of the foundation of the Institute, and it was resolved that the 

 incoming council present at a future meeting a preliminary report 

 on the subject of an appropriate celebration of such an anniversary. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year (1908- 

 1909) :— 



President, — Professor Ebexezeu MacKay, Ppi. D., ex- 



officio F. E. M. S. 

 1st Vice-President, — Professor J. Edmund Woodmaiv^. D. Sc. 

 2nd Vice-President, — AVatson L. Bishop. 

 Treasurer, — Maynard Bowman^ B. A. 



Corresponding Secretary, — A. H. MacKay, LL.D., F. U. S. C. 

 Recording Secretary and Librarian,-'— Harjxy Piers. 

 Councillors without office, — x\lexander McKay; Professor 



Frederic H. Sexton^ S. B.; H. AV. Joiixston, C. E.; 



Professor A. Stanley Mackenzie, Ph. D.; Philip 



A. Freeman; F. ^\. W. Doane, C. E.; A. L. McCallum, 



S. B. 

 Auditors,— ^OB^RiCK McColl, C. E.; William McKerron. 



First Ordinary Meeting. 



Geological Lecture Room, Dallioufiir College, Halifax; IGth 

 November, 1908. 



The President, Dr. Ebenezer MacKay, in the chair. 



It was announced that F. H. McLearn, Halifax, and W. S. 

 Stapleton, supervisor of pul)lic schools, Dartmouth, had been 

 elected ordinary members. 



Professor J. Edmund Wood:man, D. Sc, Dalhousie College, 

 read a paper on ''Recent Iron and Limestone Investigations in 

 Xova Scotia," the subject being illustrated by specimens, maps and 

 photographs. The paper was discussed by the President, H. 

 Piers, Professor F. H. Sexton, T. Tardy Hill and others. 



