APPENDIX — REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 175' 



Lectures and Essays. 



Nine regular meetings were held at which the following papers 

 were read : 



1898. 

 Feb'y 2. (1) Study of Insects, by Wm. Mcintosh. 



(•_') Xote on Turtles' Nests, by Henry F. Perkins. 

 March 1. (1) New Brunswick Thunder Storms in 1897, by S. \Y. Kain. 

 (Published in U. S. Weather Review, pp. 105-106, March 1898.) 



(2) Gun Reports at Grand Manan, by W. B. McLaughlin. 

 Published in U. S. Weather Review, March 1898, together with 



articles by Prof. W. F. Ganong and others on the same 



subject. 

 This reprint reviewed in Nature, p. 353, August 11, 1898. 

 Nature, for June 9, 1898, p. 130 ; also gives synopsis of studies 



1 iv an Italian on similar sounds in Umbria. 



(3) Mean Sea-level at St. John, by E. T. P. Shewen, C. E. 

 (Published in Bulletin XVI, p. 78, 1898). 



(4) Physiography of the Lepreau Basin, by Prof. W. F. Ganong. 



(5) Note on Crayfish in New Brunswick, by Prof. W. F. Ganong. 



(6) Note on Marine Invertebrates of the Western part of Bay de 

 Chaleur, by Prof. W. F. Ganong. 



April 5. (1) Biographical Sketch of late R. Foulis, C. E., by Percy G. Hall. 

 (Published in New Brunswick Magazine,Yo\. I, pp. 247-256,1898. 

 (2) Habits of Birds, by A. Gordon Leavitt. 

 May 3. Notes on the Trees of New Brunswick, by W. S. Butler. 



June 7. (1) Report of Delegate to the Royal Society, by W. J. Wilson. 



(2) Early Forms of Decoration and Art, by Miss Jack. 

 Oct. 4. (1) Geological and Topographical Features of Newfoundland, by 

 Dr. Geo. F. Matthew. 



(2) Xotes on Some Phenomena in Grand Manan, by D. I. W. Mc- 

 Laughlin. (Published in St. John Globe , October 6th, 1898), 



Describes remarkable sound heard at midnight, September 15th, 

 1898 ; auroral display on evening of September 17th ; very 

 heavy ground swell on September 18th. Attributes the 

 heavy swell to hurricane which swept over West Indies on 

 September 10th. 



Prof. A. W. Duff, among letters to the editor in Nature, Vol. 

 LIX, pp. 247-248, January 12th, 1899, refers to this heavy 

 ground swell in explaining the nature and cause of secondary 

 undulations in the Bay of Fundy and elsewhere. 



(3) Note on Lack and Cost of a Topographical Survey of New 

 Brunswick, by Prof. W. F. Ganong. 



Nov. 1. (1) Note upon Natural Pavements and their possible misinterpre- 

 tation in Arctueolog} 7 , by Prof. W. F. Ganong. 

 (2) Note, Attempts at Oyster Culture in Passamaquoddy Bay, by 

 Prof. W. F. Ganong. 



