CONTENTS V 



PAGK 



Ordinary meetings l-'^x 



First meeting in Nova Scotia Teclmieal College Ixx 



A new Nova Scotian insect: the birch-leaf saw-fly (Phlebatro- 



phiaj matJiesoni, Alexander MacGillivray ) . By A. H. 



MacKay, LL. D. (Title only.) Ixxi 



On a new method of estimating iodides. Hy Harold S. Davis. 



(Title only.) Ixxi 



The Californian earthquake. By Thomas C. McKay, D. 8c. 



(Title only. ) Ixxi 



Variation of the Hill treatment with the temperature and 



previous heat treatment in the case of magnetic metals. 



By Thomas C. McKay, D. Sc. (Title only.) Ixxi 



History of erosion in the Cornwallis Valley, N. S. By Prof. 



Ernest Haycock. (Title only.) Ixxi 



Recent results in wireless telegraphy. By Thomas J. Mc- 



Kavanagh. (Title only.) Ixxii 



Meeting adjourned as a mark of respect to His late Majesty, 



King Edward , Ixxii 



TRANSACTIONS. 

 Session of 1906-1907: 



Influence of radium on decomposition of hydriodic acid. — By 



H. Jermain M. Creighton, ^M. A 1 



Water power of Halifax county, Nova Scotia: part 1, Dart- 

 mouth Lakes power. — By F. W. W. Doane, C. E 21 



A few chemical changes influenced by radium: a new method 

 for the detection of amygdalin. — By H. Jermain ;M. 

 Creighton, M. A 34 



Behaviour of solutions of Hydriodic acid in light in the pre- 

 sence of oxygen. — By H. Jermain M. Creighton, M. A. 4!) 



Notes on mineral fuels of Canada. — By R. W. Ells, LL. D., 



F. R. S. C 61 



Halifax water works. — By H. W. Johnston, C. E 72 



Fungi of Nova Scotia: first supplementary list. — By A. H. 



MacKay, LL. D., F. R. S. C 119 



Session of 1907-1908: 



On the skeleton of a whale in the provincial museum, Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia; with notes on the fossil cetacea of. North 

 America. — By George H. Perkins, Ph. D l;W 



The Myxomycetes of Pictou. — By Clarence L. ^Moore, ^I. A.. . 165 



Th influence of aluminium salts on the estimation of sul- 

 phates. — By H. Jermain Creighton, M. A 207 



The action of organic sulphur in coal during the coking pro- 

 cess. — By A. L. McCallum, B. Sc 212 



