PROCEEBINeS 



OF THE 



1^0im-f coti.in Institute of ^latural ^i^iewct 



VOLUME II. PART II. 



Anniversary Meeting, October 9, 1867. 



In accordance with the Bye-Laws of the Institute, the Anniversary Meeting was held 

 on Wednesday, October 9, 1867, at 8 p.m., when the following gentlemen were elected 

 office-bearers for the ensuing year : — 



President ~.i. Matthew Jones, F. L. S. 



Vice-Presidents — J. Bernard Gilpin, M. D , J. R. DeWolfe, M. D. 



Treasurer — W. C. Silver. 

 "Secretary — W. Gossip. 



Council — .1. Hunter Duvar, P. S. Hamilton, Joseph Bell, Capt. King, R. A., 

 J. Rutherford, Capt. L'Estrange, R. A., T. F. Knight, J. Campbell. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 4, 1867. 

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

 ^J Professor Lawson (Dalhousie College) read a paper by Professor How, of King's 



*^jtf College, Windsor, which was a continuation of his former '' Notes on the Economic Min- 

 ^ eralogy oj Noua Scotia." (See Transactions.) 



^\ The Prksident read a paper entitled, " Contributions to the Natural History of the 

 ^ Bermudas — Corals and their allies." Specimens of every species described were exhib- 

 N ited, including a singularly formed Mycedium fragile. (See Transactions.) 

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Ordinary Meeting, December 2, 1867. 

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

 Dr. J. B. Gilpin read a paper on " The Food Fishes of Nova Scotia," being the fifth 

 and concluding part of a series delivered under that title. (See Transactions.) 



Dr. Sterry Hunt, F. R. S., stated that the Shad was taken as far up the St. Law- 

 rence as Montreal. 



A Member, in alluding to the taking of the different kinds of edible fish on the north- 

 east coast of America, remarked upon the local fishery laws at St. John, New Bruns- 

 wick, which apportioned the harbour in lots to fishermen, a measure found to work 

 well, as the whole harbour was thereby kept in a state of strict preservation as 

 regards its fisheries. 



