180 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 

 OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



On the 28th March, 1889, Donald Montgomery, Superintendent 

 of Education in the Province, invited those interested to attend a 

 meeting in his office for the purpose of forming a Natural History 

 Society. Six gentlemen attended, but from this small beginning a 

 vigorous society developed, and continued its active co-operative work 

 until the winter of 1891-92, when it decided to discontinue its regular 

 public meetings lest they should in any way interfere with a course of 

 lectures upon Botany, being delivered under the auspices of the local 

 University Extension authorities, by Mr. Francis Bain, whose lament- 

 able death, in November 1894, was a great loss to the Society in that 

 it robbed it of its most valuable member and most frequent contribu- 

 tor to its lecture course. Still, while no public meetings were held, 

 the Society continued to exist, and it was felt that it would be desira- 

 ble to widen its scope, and thereby lighten the work of the few already 

 over-busy members upon whom would devolve the task of preparing 

 papers for the public meetings. Accordingly at a meeting held Jan- 

 uary 10th, of this year, the Society was re-organized with above name, 

 having added to its work the study of Provincial antiquities. 



The following are the officers: 

 John Newson, Esq., --------- President. 



John MacSwain, Esq., - - Vice-President. 



Lawrence W. Watson, M. A., ------ Secy-Treas. 



The above and Miss Peppy, Messrs. J. M. Duncan, 



J. D. Seaman and W. J. Bulman, - Executive. 



The new society hopes to publish a periodical Bulletin (probably 

 <|iiarterly) and desires exchanges, which may be addressed to the 

 Secretary at Charlottetown, P. E. [. 



To give an idea of the work already done, we append a list of 

 papers read before the original society. 



