vill REPORT OF DELEGATE TO ROYAL SOCIETY. 
the badgers of England and the earthworms of our fields and 
gardens, ard was very kindly informed that the badgers were 
precisely similar to those of England, with the same habits, ouly 
much larger ; also that the earthworms were similar to those of 
our fields and gardens. I remain still in doubt about this latter 
conclusion. It is certain, I believe, that our anglers never find 
earthworms in the virgin soil of the woods, but are obliged to 
take such bait with them. The question may still be one of 
some zoological importance. A member from New Brunswick 
laid before the Section a number of well-preserved Indian relics, 
—axes, chisels, pipes, spear and arrow heads, Wc., all stone 
implements, which had been found in that Province. They were 
of the Algonkin type of ancient aboriginal relics, and it was 
presumed were Micmac weapons and utensils. From the absence 
of pottery in this and other instances noted, it was supposed that: 
the more eastern tribes did not possess the art of making it. 
Being called upon, I was enabled to contradict this, as in one of: 
the field excursions of the Halifax Institute, with the express 
object of opening an ancient refuse heap at St. Margaret’s Bay 
and examining its contents, several pieces of broken pottery 
were found, the remains of dish or bowl, the edges or rims | 
ornamented with small bead-like cubes of iron pyrites, inserted 
when the clay was soft and compressible. In general the ex- 
hibits were very clean, as though carefully washed, and there 
were present implements of black stone, the like of which I had 
never before seen, although there are a great variety of Micmac 
implements in the Halifax museum. They could scarcely be 
classed entirely as Micmac. Some thought they might be 
Milicete or Penobscot, or partly of a type more southern still. 
It was an interesting collection, very appropriate as a memento 
of the very recent age of stone in America, when man on this 
portion of the continent had made no progress beyond the 
rudest appliances to provide for his immediate wants. 
It was intimated by direction of the President, that the dele- 
gates would meet next day at the Section of Natural Science, to 
present reports from the various affiliated Societies. Also, that 
the Governor-General and Princess Louise would hold a reception 
