102 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



FINANCE. 



The Treasurer's report shows the following receipts and 

 expenditures : 



Balance from last year, $ 14 79 



Dues collected, . . .' 107 00 



Bulletins sold, 4 05 



Government Grant, 125 00 



Interest on Investment, 144 00 



Other items, 45 50 



$440 34 

 Current Expenses, 388 03 



Balance, $52 31 



LECTURES AND ESSAYS. 



During the year, twelve meetings of the Society vvere held, 

 at which the following papers were read: 



1894. 

 Feb. 6. Fish Life in the Upper Waters of the River St. 

 John. By Wm. M. McLean, M. A. 

 The Ingratitude of Societies. By Samuel W. Kain. 



Mar. 6. (1) Report on the North-westerly Expansion of Ice 

 in the River Kennebeccasis. By Wm. Mur- 

 doch, Esq., C. E. (Published in Globe, March 

 10th, 1894. 



(2) Dr. Silas T. Rand, Missionary, Linguist, and 



Author. By Miss Eleanor Robinson. 



(3) Botany of the Parish of Blissville, Sunbury 



County, N. B. By Henry F. Perkins. (Pub- 

 lished in Gazette, March 8th, 1894. 



(4) The Intellectual Pre-eminence of the Germans. 



By William F. Ganong. (Published in Educa- 

 tional Review, March 1894. 



April 3. (1) Spring Birds at Petitcodiac — with table showing 

 date of arrivals and departures for five years. 

 By John Brittain. 

 (2) Bacteria. By W. F. Best. 



April 10. A New Re-agent in Blowpipe Analysis. By Prof. 



W. W. Andrews. 

 May 1. An Outline of Phytobiology (1st Paper) By W. F. 



Ganong. (Published in Bulletin XII.) 



