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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 ior 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 concerning 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 

 VIII. 



