PROCEEDINGS 



^obii ^cotian Institute of Science. 



SESSION OF 1909-1910. 



AxxuAL BusiXESs Meeting. 



House of Assembly, Province Building, Halifax; 



Sth November, 1909. 



The Presidext. Dr. Ebexezek Mackay, in the chair. 



Other members present : Dr. A. PI. MacKay, Dr. A. Staxley 

 Mackexzie, Mayxard Bowmax, Alexaxt)er McKay, A\'atsox 

 L. Bishop, F. W. AV. Doaxe, Parker R. Colpitt, William 

 McKerrox, Thomas C. McKay, and Harry Piers. 



Presidextial Address: (i) Deceaieu members; Cd) Work of 

 the Institute; (3) The atomic theory. — By Professor 

 Ebexezer Mack ay. Ph. D.. Dalhousie College. Halifax. 



Deceased Members. 



In reviewing the history of our last year preparatory to 

 beginning, as we do this evening, the vrork of a new session, it i- 

 fitting that reference should first he made to the losses which our 

 membership has sustained through death. It is with profound 

 regret I nave to record the deatli of four mcniVjers : one associate 

 member, Mr. R. R. McLeod, and three corresponding members, 

 Mr. Charles Pickford, Dr. James Fletcher and Mr. Hugh Fletcher. 

 Of these the last named was, by virtue of his geological work in 

 the Province and his contril)utions to the Transactions of the 

 Society, associated in an especial way with the vrork of the Institute. 



Pkoc. & Trans. N. S. Ixst. Sci., Vol. XII Proc. E 



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