PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



VOL. IV. PART III. 



Provincial Museum, Oct.. 11, 1876. 



Anniversay Meeting. 

 J. B. Gilpin, B. A., M. D., M. R. C. S., President, in the Chair. 

 Inter alia. 

 The following gentlemen were elected office-bearers for the ensuing 

 rear : — 



President— J. B. Gilpin, M. D., &c. 



Vice-Presidents— William Gossip, F. Allison, M. A. 



Treasurer — W. C. Silver. 



Joint Secretaries — Rev. D. Honeyman, D. C. L., &e. ; J. T. Mellish, 

 M. A. 



Council— A. P. Reip, M. D., G. Lawson, LL. T)., &c. ; Sheriff Bell, J. 

 M. De Wolfe, M.D., &c, J. Sommers, M1).,L.G. Power, Robert Morrow, 

 Augustus Allison. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 13, 1876. 

 Dr. J. B. Gilpin, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary announced that the Council had elected Mr. Geoffrey 

 Morrow a member of the Institute. 



The President exhibited a sketch of a piece of carved stone or rock 

 "which he had found near Digby. He thought that the characters were Aztec 

 rather than Runic. Dr. Gilpin also exhibited a beautiful Indian pipe. 



J. Sommers, M. D., then read a paper on the " Composite of Nova Scotia," 

 and exhibited several preserved specimens of Asters, which he very minutely 

 described. (See Transactions.) 



Ordinary Meeting, Dec. 11, 1876. 

 The President in the Chair. 

 The Secretary stated that Dr. De Wolfe, of London, Eng., had been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Institute. 



