4 PROCEEDINGS. 



about the place, which proved that some change must have taken place, rendering the 

 shores unsuitable to the propagation of those moUusks. 



Mr. W. D. O'Brien, who was introduced by Professor Lawson, described his 

 impression of animal life at high altitudes on European mountains, from which it 

 appeared that an almost total absence of all kinds of animals, birds and insects, 

 occurred above a certain height. 



Oedikakt Meetixg, April 1, 1867. 

 J. M. JoXES, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. OuTRAM read a paper " On Sugar, its chemical composition, coinhinalions ,-and 

 products." 



After the reaing of the paper, Dr. Jennings made some remarks upon the disease 

 ealled Diabetes, in connection with the production of sugar in the human system. 



Vice-President Gilpin read a pa^Qv " On the Food Fishes of Nova Scotia. — Xo. 

 IV." (See Transactions.) 



Ordinary Meeting, Mat 6, 1867. 

 J. B. Gilpin, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 R. G. IIaliburton, F. S. A., read a paper entitled " Notes on the Pictou Coal Fields," 

 which v/as accompanied by a chart of the district. (See Transactions.) 



