64 REPORT — 1897. 



gamous and cryptogamous plants from Great Britain. Supported by the 

 Senate of King's College. Acting Curator : Professor F. W. Vroom, 

 Windsor, Nova Scotia. 



Pictou Academe/ Museum, Pictou, Rova Scotia. — Includes a very good 

 and fairly complete collection of the birds and mammals of the county of 

 Pictou, an herbarium, and a cabinet of geology illustrating the minerals 

 of Nova Scotia, with special reference to the coals, iron ores, and fossil 

 remains of Pictou County. Enriched by numerous collections made and 

 arranged by Dr. A. H. Mackay, Superintendent of Education for Nova 

 Scotia, and a past principal of the Academy. 



Natural History Society of New Brunswick Museum, St. John, N.B. — • 

 Contains about 15,000 specimens, arranged and classified. The Gesner 

 Museum of Geology, &c., is included in the same building. Geological 

 collections comprise 1,400 specimens of minerals, upwards of 1,000 

 specimens of fossils, and the zoological department, embracing collec- 

 tions of birds, fishes, reptiles, mammals, insects, shells, birds' eggs, and 

 birds' nests, contains 3,741 specimens in all. There is a good herlaarium, 

 comprising about 6,-500 sheets, 1,500 New Brunswick phanerogams 

 and cryptogams, and 5,000 phanerogams, foreign, European, West 

 Indies, United States, Canada. About 600 specimens in the archaeo- 

 logical cabinets and 200 in the ethnological series. The palseontological 

 collections are chiefly those of Dr. G. F. Matthew and of the late 

 Professor C. F. Hartt. 



Type specimens of fossil organic remains from rock formations in the 

 vicinity of St. John, &c., described by Dr. Matthew, Professor S. H. 

 Scudder, Mr. C. F. Hartt, and Sir J. W. Dawson are carefully preserved 

 in the cabinets of this museum. 



' The most valuable,' Dr. Matthew writes, ' are the types of the 

 Devonian plants collected by Hartt and described by Sir William Dawson.' 

 There are here also the types of the fossil insects described by Dr. S. H. 

 Scudder that were collected by Hartt.' Also some few other types and 

 a good many typical fossils of various formations. The museum is housed 

 in six rooms on the second floor of St. John City Market, Charles Street. 

 The society receives a small annual grant from the New Brunswick 

 Legislature. Curators of the Museum : Dr. G. F. Matthew, Samuel W. 

 Kain, Esq., A. Gordon Leavitt, Esq. 



The University Museum, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 

 N.B. — Organised about 1836 by Dr. James Robb. The approximate 

 number of specimens classified and displayed to-day in the museum is 

 2,800, of which about 1,300 belong to the geological collections of minerals, 

 rocks, and fossils from various parts of New Brunswick and other pro- 

 vinces of Canada, Europe, and the United States. There are 1,495 speci- 

 mens in the zoological cabinets, including birds, birds' eggs (representing 

 250 species), reptiles, crustaceans, fishes, insects, molluscs, and star-fishes, 

 &c., most of which are the gift of foreign institutions and societies. There 

 is also the nucleus of a small archaeological collection, including pipes, 

 pottery, and stone implements from New Brunswick, with a few from the 

 United States. The economic mollusca, the Cambrian fossils of St. John, 

 New Brunswick, and the ornithological collection by Messrs. Ganong, 

 Matthew, and Adney respectively comprise the most conspicuous and 



' See Reports on Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upjyer Silurian of Canada. 

 Geological Survey of Canada, Montreal, 1871. 



