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The Nova Scotian Institute of Science’s [hereafter NSIS] sesquicentenary in 2012 offers an opportune moment in the Institute’s lengthy history to celebrate an impressive cumulative record of achievement over time. In so doing, we can assess the NSIS’s place in the same “universal flux and flow of the world” that buffeted its partner institution, Dalhousie University, in a rapidly changing historical context. From its inception, the NSIS mandated annual assessments by its presidents, who have traditionally taken more detailed stock of its state of affairs at 25-year intervals (Piers 1915; Piers 1936; Fergusson 1964). To mark its 75th anniversary in 1937, NSIS members even contemplated commissioning a history for publication in a scholarly journal; the Council, however, tabled the suggestion in favour of a public event that would make a bigger splash (NSIS Council Minutes 1936: 26 October; NSIS 1936a). In addition to the manuscript Minutes of NSIS meetings housed in the Nova Scotia Archives, the Institute’s remarkable unbroken series of published Proceedings and Transactions1 sheds valuable light on the ways in which discussion translated into action. This substantial cumulative historical record also reveals longterm challenges faced by an ambitious institution dedicated to “the promotion of science” – a mission that began as a measure of Nova Scotia’s material and cultural progress in the modern world, changing its meaning over time in ways that repeatedly challenged the Institute’s understanding of its place in that world. Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (2015) Volume 48, Part 1, pp. 5-61

Reflections on time and place: The Nova Scotian Institute of Science in its first 150 years