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2.— "On the Flora of McXab's Island, Halifax," by Captain J. H. 



Barbour, M.D., E.A.M.C. 

 3. — " Catalogue of the Birds of Prince Edward Island," l)y John 



MacSwain. 

 4.— "Mining, Is It a Science?" by W. E. Lishman, M.A., M. In,-i 



M.E^^ 

 5. — " Fungi of Nova Scotia ; First Supplementary List," by A. I-r 



MacKay, LL.D., F.E.S.C. 

 6.—" Halifax Water Works," by H. W. Johnston, CE. 

 T.—-' The Oil-fields of Eastern Canada," by E. W. Ells, LL.D. 

 8.—" The Frost and Drought of 1005," by F. W. W. DoaBe, C.E. 

 9. — " Eels in Water Pipes and their Migration," by W. L. Bishop. 

 10. — " Xotes on Protective Colouring," by Frank H. Eeid. 

 11. — "The Grignard Synthesis; Action of Phenyl Magnesium Bromide 



on Camphor," by H. Jerraain Creighton. 

 12. — "Contribution to the Study of Hydrox^damin," by G. M. John- 

 stone MacKay, B.A. 

 13. — " The Water Powers on the Mersey Eiver, N.S.," by W. G. Yors- 



ton, C.E. 

 14. — " On the Damage done to Timber by Teredo navalis and Limnoria 



Ugnorum," by Eoderick McColl, C.E. 

 15. — " Phenological Observations, Canada, 1905," by A. H. MacKay, 



LL.D., F.E.S.C. 

 16.— " Water-rolled Weed-balls," by A. H. MacKay, LL.D., F.E.S.C. 



VI. — From The Natural Hisfory Society of Montreal, through 



Dr. Nicholls. 



The following report of the work of the Xatural Histor}^ Society 

 for the session of 1905-1906 is respectfully submitted for the con- 

 sideration of the Eoyal Society of Canada. 



The officers and members of the above society have pleaslure in 

 reporting a most successful year's work. Keeping in mind the pur- 

 pose for which the association was formed, namely, to encourage the 

 study of nature among its members, to foster the love of natural 

 objects among the general puldic, and, in a word, to disseminate and 

 popularize these special branches of science, they have to a large extent 

 followed the methods which have proved so successful in former years, 

 but with the expectation in the comparatively near future of embracing 

 an even larger scope. In general, the objects mentioned have been 

 carried out by means of regular monthly meetings of a largely scien- 

 tific nature; free evening lectures of a popular kind; weekly after- 



