104 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



BIRDS. 

 Lecturer, Philip Cox, B.Sc. Ph.D. 



Mar. 13. Organization of Birds in Relation to their Habits. 

 20. Plan of Birds in the Economy of Nature. 

 27. Intelligence of Birds, inherited and acquired. 



PLANTS. 

 Lecturer, Geo. U. Hay, M.A., F.R.S.C. 



April 10. The Plant as a Living Being, etc. 



17. Flowerless Plants, Structure, Classification, Uses. 

 24. Flowering Plants, Structure, Mode of Reproduction. 

 From seed to fruit. Classification. 



LIBRARY. 



The year has seen large accessions to the library. Among 

 donations specially worthy of mention are seven volumes of the 

 Educational Review, from Mr. Geo. U. Hay, and a large number 

 of zoological works from Prof. W. F. Ganong. 



Prof. Ganong has also generously presented to the Society 

 200 copies of his work on the Economic Mollusca of Acadia, 

 bound in cloth. 



A valuable set of works on Palaeontology has been acquired 

 by purchase. 



BOTANY. 



This delightful study has been brought before the Society 

 very prominently during the year. Six papers have been read 

 on this subject, and in the elementary course three lectures have 

 been given. A number of plants new to the province have been 

 discovered, and a complete list of our mosses has been prepared 

 by that veteran student, Mr. John Moser. Messrs. Hay and 

 Ganong have undertaken a new text-book in botany suitable for 

 these Atlantic Provinces, and it is confidently expected that the 

 proposed work will do much to increase the widening popularity 

 of this science. 



MUSEUM. 



The Custodian has continued mounting the European plants 

 and doing other museum work. The rooms received a thorough 

 cleaning, and the collections are all in fair condition. 



The Room Committee have had the entrance and halls 

 thoroughly cleaned and painted. The mammals have been 

 removed from the Lecture Hall to the room up-stairs, formerly 

 used as a laboratory. It is considered that this change will be 

 an improvement. 



The rooms have been open as usual, and a large number of 

 visitors have examined the collections. 



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