SECOND REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Financial Standing. 



Balance on hand in February. 1899, S 24.38 



Receipts for two years ending February, 1901, 295.10 



$319.48 



Expenditure, 215.15 



Balance on hand $104.33 



Estimated cost of printing Bulletin, 50.00 



$54.33 



Cabinets ordered, to be paid out of this balance. 



Museum. 



Owing to the lack of space for the reception and arrange- 

 ment of materials, especially large objects, the Association was 

 unable to add as generously to its collection as it would haye 

 done. Now, however, as the old custom house, a large stone 

 building, has been secured for a museum, the future will, we 

 trust, be marked by a satisfactory increase of specimens of all 

 kinds. As the reports of the various committees and curators 

 show, there was considerable material added since the last re- 

 port. 



Botany. 



The grow^th of the herbarium has been steady and gratifying. 

 A cabinet was procured, a large number of plants mounted and 

 labelled, and many collected during the summer will be placed 

 in the cabinet in due time. Little, hov.'ever, was done with the 

 cryptogamous flora of the district, and we beg to express .the 

 hope that the ensuing year will be marked by some special work 

 in this direction. The mosses and ferns deserve early attention. 



A few fine specimens of fossil carboniferous plants were re- 

 ceived as donations. 



Ornithology. 



There has been a gradual increase in the material under 

 this head, but the lack of cabinet space was felt here as elsewhere ; 

 still a large number of the birds of New Brunswick were added 



