6 PROCEEDINGS. 



At a short distance from this qiiarry another kind of marble occurred, which 

 came as near to the description of verd antique as he considered possible. 

 These marbles were not more than two miles from a shipping place.* 



The Secretary read a paper by the Rev. John Morton, of Bridgewater, 

 entitled—" Remarks on the Pitch Lake of Trinidad.'" {See Transactions.) 



Colonel Myeks and Mr. F. Wainwright, who had resided on the island, 

 gave some interesting descriptions of its natural history. 



Capt. Lyttleton gave an interesting verbal account of his recent visit 

 to the Oil Springs of Canada, and referred to their great commercial value. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 2, 1866. 



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



Professor Lawson, Dalhousie College, read a paper — " On Sodium as an 

 Amalgam," accompanied with interesting experiments. {See Transactions.} 



The Hon. the Attorney General had his attention called to the metai 

 when in England lately, where he had visited the laboratory of Mr. Crooks, 

 and had witnessed a series of experiments by that gentleman, having for their 

 object its introduction into gold producing countries. He deemed the experi- 

 ments quite conclusive and satisfactory, and they were such as Dr. Lawson 

 had exhibited before them that evening. 



Dr. DeWolfe alluded to a communication which had been published by 

 Mr. Thos. Belt upon the same subject. Mr. Belt's design was to procure a 

 patent for a mode he had discovered of applying sodium as a flux of gold. He 

 thought it would be well to ascertain if Mr. Belt's patent was in existence, 

 and also its merits in comparison with the other process. 



Capt. Hardy, E. A., {Vice-President) made some observations on the 

 chlorides as disinfectants and their mode of preparation. 



Vice President Gilpin read a paper " On the Food Fishes of Nova Scotia." 

 {See Transactions.) 



The President referred to the identity of species in regard to several 

 marine fishes of N. E. America, and N". Euro23e, and instanced the Cod, 

 Mackerel, Herring and others, as presenting no marked difference from those 

 of the British coast. 



Professor Lawson remarked that the White Fish mentioned in Dr. 

 Gilpin's paper he had always considered peculiar to the large Canadian lakes. 

 Dr. Gilpin, in reply said they were frequent in the rivers of New Brunswick, 

 especially in the Madawaska, and were also taken in Lake Temisquata. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 8, 1866. 



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



The Secretary read a paper by Thos. Belt, F. G. S., — " On the Glacial 



Periodin Nova Scotia." — (See Transactions.) 



Rev. Dr. Honeyman, F. G. S., read a paper — " On the Geology of Antigo- 



*It is the intention of the Nova Scotian Commissioners to send a fine series of these 

 marbles to the Paris Exhibition of 1867. 



