APPENDIX — PKINCE EDWARD ISLAND SOCIETY. 261 



THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN 

 SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



(Instituted March 28th, 1889; re-organized January 10th, 1899). 



During 1899 eleven public meetings have been held, and on each 

 occasion the attendance has been good. 



The dates of the meetings and the subjects of the papers and 

 lectures were as follows : 



Re-organization. 



Business meeting, followed by an impromptu address upon "Some 



of our Fungi," by Mr. John MacSwain. 

 Rust of Wheat, by John MacSwain. 



Geological Reminiscences of Prince Edward Island, by Thos. May. 

 Floriculture, by James Taifc. 

 An Abnormal Vegetable Growth in the Human Throat, by L. W. 



Watson, M.A. 

 Some Geological Evidences of the Nebular Hypothesis, by John 



Newson. 

 Some Effects of Solar Radiation upon Organic Life, by W. J. Bui 



man, B. S., etc. 

 Some Notes on Man Primeval, by Charles Palmer, Q.C. 

 The Colored Races of P. E. Island, by J. T. Mellish, M.A. 



(a) Notes on Fungi Collected by Miss Pippy, 1899, by John Mac- 

 Swain 



(b) Note on a Piece of Petrified Wood found in the heart of a 

 living Tree, by J. M Duncan. 



(<■) Explanation of an Abnormal Potato Growth (exhibited by Mr. 

 W. Doull), Lawrence Watson. 

 Dec. 11. An Introduction to the Study of Mineralogy, by Rev. T. H. Hunt, 

 M.A., B.D. 



The annual "outing" was held on the 24th of June, when the 

 Society and many guests, having visited on the way the Micmac 

 encampment at Rocky Point, walked to the ruins of "Ringwood," 

 where Hon. F. St. Croix Brecken delivered a short address upon the 

 Life and Times of Col. Cumberland. The ruins of Fort La Joie were 

 next visited, where Messrs. Brecken and Newson delivered very inter- 



