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botanizing we return visiting the gas works which we inspect carefully 
with a view to a better comprehension of a lecture by Prof. E. MacKay, 
giving a scientific account of the manufacture of gas from coal, dealing 
particularly with the by-products, showing their chemical relations 
and uses. 
On the third Saturday in July we would make a similar expedition 
to Waverly Gold Mines—crossing to Dartmouth in the steamer 
“‘Chebucto,” and to our destination by train. At Waverly we would 
examine the gold mine and the rich lacustrine flora. 
In August, for one fare we purchase a return ticket to Campbellton, 
N. B., to spend two days with some of the most enthusiastic scientists 
of the Maritime Provinces—those Professors, Principals, and other 
teachers who are willing to devote two weeks of their holiday season 
to mutual instruction and enjoyment in the forest, field and laboratory. 
I refer to the Summer School of Science, which will then hold its 13th 
annual session. The President, Mr. Geo. U. Hay, has invited the 
Natural History Society of New Brunswick and also this Institute to 
co-operate with the Summer School in a grand gathering of the repre- 
sentative scientific men of the Maritime Provinces. The place of 
meeting would be a delight to the lover of romantic scenery, while 
affording to the botanist and geologist exceptional facilities for field 
work. The occasion might be utilized tor the discussion of some of the 
larger questions regarding scientific education that are pressing upon us. 
Joint resolutions from our three scientific societies would have great. 
weight with our governments, and might lead to the extension of our 
technical science schools, now so miserably inadequate, or to important, 
modification in the methods adopted to further education in general 
science. 
Before closing, it might be expected that as a member of a Scientific 
Institute and teacher, I should say a few words as to the place which 
science occupies in our educational system, as to the place it should 
occupy, and also concerhing the best means to be used to secure for it 
that place. 
As to the place which it does occupy. It is found in the prescribed 
course of study in the form of lessons on Nature for the eight grades of 
the common school course, with the addition of a few specialized lessons 
on the simplest principles of Physics and Chemistry for Grades VII. and 
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