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with an untiring determination to make it the most complete, accur 4, giuiiia 



and thorough representation of the Mineralogy, Geology and Natuirfnce E(h 



History of the Province, as well as the means of a direct comparii gt- A coll 



of the natural products of New Brunswick with those of other countn.-fifich as 



the labors of its originator soon served not only to place the collect; ,^,ff"^*['' ' 



upon a secure and permanent basis, but to do much towards its ex{{' SV^^"\^ 



sion and enlargement. When deprived of the further continuance S' -itoteria 



benefit of these labors, the materials in the possession of the Univers, Hf^terial 



had already exceeded llie limited accommodations for their preservat >§|Clay, S 



and display, and much that might be profitably retained and employ B^ilflinf 



in illustraiion and instruction was necessarily removed or stored av. ^"*'''^^' 



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in a practicaDy unavailable form for future use. These difficulties hs' (51^9 of t 



constantly and rapidly increased to the present hour, when it becoii^ .fiineral 



absolutely necessary to reject large quantities of material which, w. Mineral 



proper and ample facilities for their arrangement and display, would !>• Hearth' 



only add greatly to the completeness of the collection, but also enhar We ha^ 



to a very considerable degree its practical usefulness. 



Under these circumstances it would seem as though the time li This d*^I 

 now come for the construction of a building especially devoted to t'*^^^^^^' 

 arrangement and preserAation of this most valuable collection, whi. . ' , . 

 already far more complete than any other in the Lower Provinces, rgince tl 

 capable of becoming, with comparatively little eflEbrt, the representatiagarded 

 IVIuseum of Acadia. To coiivey a more just appreciation of the rWtructioi 

 value of our Museum and to give some conception of the extent, vari'* tegaia 

 and importance of the objects which it already illustrates, it may 1 ^, , ' 

 be uninteresting to present here a brief synopsis of its present coll.jy -^f g^. 

 tions and of their general mode of arrangement. 'iahes an( 



They may be briefly summed as follows, beginning with Next 



THE MINERAL KINGDOM. ^' ;^ ^° 



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1. A collection of simple minerals, including more than 250 from New Bm 2 A co 



wick, over 100 from other portions of Acadia, and over .500 from various forej^^ ^este 

 localities in Europe and America, repreaenting more especially the great m 3 a cc 

 ing districts of the old world. pq,^ ^^^ 



2. A collection of rocks, representative of the lithology and geology of > 4. Nun 

 Brunswick, and arranged in duplicate series, the one illustrative of the e8pe( f Ibis 

 character of the different counties, the other of their more general relatinibfjacir 

 and geological age. ive coUt 



n. A similar series of foreign rocks, over 400 in number, representing nd •A"'^* 

 principal rock-formations of Europe. We li 



