CONTENTS 



Prockedings, session of 1907-1908: page 



Annual MEETING xxxi 



Presidential address.— By F. W. W. Doane, C. E xxxi 



(1) Obituary references to Edward Gilpin xxxi 



(2) " " " Daniel McNeil Parker xxxiv 



<3) " ', " George Thomas Kennedy xxxv 



(4) " " " E. B. Tinling xxxv 



(5) Technical education xxxvii 



Report of librarian and secretary xli 



Officers elected for 1907-1908 xlii 



Ordinary meetings xliii 



Influence of radium on the decomposition of hydriodic acid.— By H. 



Jermain Crcighton, M. A. (See p. 1) xliii 



(1) Fish eating habit^^ of medusae; (2) The present and future of our 



fisheries —By Prof. E. E. Prince. (Title only) xliv 



(1) A few chemical changes influenced by radium ; a new method for the 

 detection of amygdalin. (2) Behavior of solutions of hydriodic acid 

 in light in the presence of oxygen.— H. J. Creighton, M. A. (See pp. 31 



and 49 xliv 



Occurrence of tin in Nova Scotia.— By Harry Piers. (See p. 239) xlv 



Note on eels in water pipes— By W. L. Bishop. (Title only) xlv 



Economic geology of Arisaig, N. S.— By Professor J. E. Woodman. 



(Title only) xlv 



Transactions, session of 1907-1908 : 



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



Scotia ; with notes on the fossil cetaceaof North America.— By George 



H. Perkins. Ph. I> 139 



The Myxomycetes of Pictou county.— By Clarence L. Moore, M. A 165 



The influence of aluminium salts on the estimation of sulphates.— By H. 



Jermain Creighton, M. A 207 



The action of organic sulphur in coal during the coking process.— By A.L. 



McCallum, B. Sc 212 



Appendix II : 



List of members, 1907-1908 v 



List of presidents of the Institute since its foundation in 1862 viii 



