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ible insight into the latter, pnd how is this to be obtained ? Of courn how i 

 it would be impossible for all the students of the different schools, eviow mai 

 of our immediate vicinity, to have direct access to such a Museum hrOAv a 1 

 t}iat which 1 am anxious to establish, but there is no reasoTi why tlind whic 

 teachers, many of whom now spend several months every year at tattiro ad 

 Training ycliool in I'^redericton, should not have that access, and ur soils, 

 being thus led to see the possibility of collecting and arranging natiih© age 

 objects, be also led for themselves, or with the assistance of ttistHbuti 



I! scholars, to make similar collections, and thus to add very greatly bdons of 



to the interest and the utility of the subjects taught by them. I thit(jier to 

 tliat we have in this matter a duty to perform not only for our o'anv, w 

 students but for the community in general. It is truly surprising tlf our foi 



,, with so much fondness for natural objects as actually prevails here, af the lat 



which is .^liOwn by the numerous and well-stocked conserAai ories il or th^ 

 well as by the general taste for tlie cidtivation of flowers observablefe, inelu 

 our midst, there sliould be so little real knowledge of the structure arhich th( 

 physiology of plants, of their relations to each other or of the laws whtuna, an 

 govern their geographical distribution, — subjects which are ^ery geintter or 

 aKy taught and well taught in the schools of the neighboring republiepleted- 

 1 may add that to facilitate this object it is not impossible that^oned u 

 rangements may be made for special courses of lectures on chemisave aUu 

 and natural history, to which the teachers of the training school Nor m 



1, others, male or female, may be admitted.* urestim 



But it is not merely in its educational aspect that I would urge tith wlii 

 subject upon your attention. I believe it to be a matter of great prreaent 

 tical importance to the entire Province that there shoidd be, somewli'here an 



, witliin its limits, a representative collection of its animals, pLints, maps dee 



I erals and economic products of aU sorts — a collection which shaU beewprin( 



complete as possible in all these several departments, and one to wlot be th 

 appeal may always be made whene\ er information with referenctad usefi 

 either of the latter is desired. The nucleus of such a jNIuseum weire as li 

 ready possess, and thanks to the liberality or the exertions of a nd intiu 

 friends by whom the importance of the subject is duly appreciated, ifonnat i 

 University can even now boast a cabinet iniequalled by that of ndeed t 

 other institution in the Maritime Provinces ; but are our eff'orts to orhich do 

 here? How uuich, how very much remains to be done before thewie loftic 

 to which I have alluded can be regarded as anything like completerive fn 



"lain awaro tlmt r<iu>h a course would add materially to my own labors, already HiiflicieSlOn til'. 

 oiu'roiH. but as this labor is all that I liave to offer in return for that more material sin a jii 

 wliieli 1 sliU conttdenlly liopu for, I shall not on thai account shrink from its performauec. ^^" "^' 



