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useful educational medium. The reading-room of the Society is maintained on a liberal footing. 

 About $160 annually are exjjended in the pm-chase of newspapers and periodicals. 



The Society has also a Museum comprising some valuable collections, chiefly Mineralogical, 

 Botanical, and Entomological. Tlie basis of this Museum has lately been changed, the present purpose 

 being to confine our efforts to making local representative collections ; and some articles which the 

 Society jjossessed that were not of a local character, have been disposed of to other scientific bodies 

 in return for specimens more suitable to the Society's objects. 



The number of members at present on the Society's books is about 350, and the annual subscrip- 

 tion is fixed at the very low rate of $2. The Society, under the vigorous presidency of Mr. LeSueur, 

 has, during the past yeai-, made a very gi-atifying advance, attributable chiefly to its having moved 

 to very central and otherwise suitable premises, and to the improvements made in the Library and 

 Reading-i'oom ; its prospects for the future may therefore be considered of an encouraging character. 



The Officers of the Society for the current year are as follows : — 



President W. D. LeSueui-. 



1st Vice-President "Wm. P. Anderson. 



2nd do J. Fletcher. 



Secretary G. M. Greene. 



Treasurer J. E. Armsti'ong. 



Librarian T. G. Eothwell. 



Curator A. McGill. 



C W. Scott. 

 Members of Council j E. B. Whj^e. 



^ E. D. Martin. 



Wm. P. Anderson, First Vice-President, 



Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada. 



XIV. From the Nova Scotia Histoi-ical Society, through Professor G. Lawson : — 



The special objects of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, the arrangement by which its Li- 

 brary has been amalgamated with the Provincial Library of Nova Scotia, and the work accom- 

 plished, and in i^rogress, of collecting rare publications and documents bearing upon the history of 

 the Province, — were so full}' detailed by Dr. Allison, the Delegate of last year, that it is unnecessary 

 now to refer to them further than to say that the arrangement and cataloguing of the Library are 

 now so far completed that the books can be consulted with facility. The work of collection still goes 

 on, and the additions are incorporated in the Card Catalogue as soon as made. 



Volume III of the Society's " Eeport and Collections," extending to 208 pages, has been pub- 

 lished during the past year. It contains the concluding portion of the History of St. Paul's Church, 

 Halifax, by the Eev. George Hill, D. C. L. The first two poi-tions of this paper traced the history of 

 the church, and recorded the historical affairs connected with it, from the first settlement of Halifax 

 down to the year 1823. The present part continues the narrative for the remaining sixty years, to the 

 present time. The volume also contains a document of no inconsiderable importance in the history 

 of the country, viz., the "Journal of Colonel John AViuslow, of the Pi-ovincial Troojjs, while engaged 

 in removing the Acadian Fj'ench Inhabitants from Grand Pré, and the neighbouring settlements, in 

 the autumn of the j-ear 1755," transcribed from the original manuscript Journal, in the Library of 

 the Historical Society of Massachusetts, by permission of the Society, in March, 1880, under the di- 

 rection of the Eecord Commission of Nova Scotia. The Society's volume likewise contains a History 

 of the substantial stone edifice in Halifax, known as Government House, by the Hon. Adams G. 

 Archibald, C. M. G., Lieutenant-Governor, in which its progress in building, fi-om the laying of the 



