X PROCEEDINGS. 



Ft was resolved that the thanks of the Institute he conveyed to 

 ills HoxoK THE Speaker of thh House of Asseaehly, for his 

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

 meeting. 



Reference was made to tlio desirability of having some exchange 

 system in Canada whicli woiiUl take the ])lace of that of the Smith- 

 j^onian Bureau of Intei'natioiial Ivxclianties at Washington, wliieh 

 latter bureau can not now undertake the work of forwai'ding book 

 packages to foreign countries owing to the magnitude to which 

 m\c\\ work had grown of late years. The suhjcct was referred to 

 the council. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year (1006- 



1907): 



President — F. W. W. Doank, C. E., ex officio F. R. I\I. S. 

 Vice-Presidents — Professor EnicNEZER MacKay, Ph. D. ; PRorKssoR 



J. E. Woodman, D. Sc. 

 Treasurer — J. B. McCarthy, B. A., M. Sc. 

 Corresponding Hecretartj — A. H. MacKay, Ll. D., F. R. S. C. 

 liecordinfi Secretar)/ — Harry Piers. 

 Librarian — Harry Piers. 

 Cotincillors without Office — Mayxard liowiiAN, B. A.; Watson L. 



Bishop; Edwin (Gilpin, Jr., Ll. D., F. R. S. C, I. S. O.; 



Alexander McKay; Professor Frederic H. Sexton, B. Sc; 



Henry S. Poole, ]). Sc, F. R. S. C. ; William McKerron. 

 Auditors — Professor ]). A. iSIi'rray, Pir. D. ; R. McColl, C. E 



A vote of tlianks was presented to the retiring trcasuvci", W. 

 McKkhkox, for his services; to H. Pi Fits, foi' hi- work' as secre- 

 tary; and to the TresidExVT, Mp. Doake. 



FiijsT ()i;i)iXAin Mi:i:'r]N'G. 

 Assriiihh/ h'doiii. rroritirr liiiili/lti;/, //dlifu.r, Pjlli rfdn.. 1',)0'7. 

 TllK l'i;i:sii)KNT, Mi;. Do.wk. in the diair. 



It was reported thai I'liiijp A. Fi;i:f.man, engineer, Halifax 

 Electric Tram Co., lialilax, had l)een elected an ordinary member. 



A paper was read, entitled, "Notes on Mineral Fuels of Can- 

 ada," by \{. W. Ells, El. 1)., F. G. S. A., F. 1?. S. C, of the 

 <ieological Survey, Ottawa. (See Transactions, p. G1.) 



