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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
In July the junior members spent twelve days camping. After 
the summer vacation the outings were commenced again, and will 
be continued until November. 
Geology (G. F. Matthew, Chairman.) 
The Committee reports that a visit was made to the plant 
beds, discovered last year by Dr. Matthew at Beaver Harbor. 
He and Wm. McIntosh spent two days there studying the 
relation of the beds and collecting from them. Only a few 
species of plants were found, but they are of special interest to 
the palaeontologist and botanist, on account of their great 
antiquity. 
Mr. W. J. Wilson, of the Canadian Geological Survey, has 
also been engaged in New Brunswick, in studying the coal mines 
at Minto, and collecting the varied and interesting fossil plants 
that are found with the coal. Dr. R. W. Ells, also of this survey, 
has visited the eastern counties in connection with the exploita- 
tion of the oil shales that occur there. 
Dr. L. W. Bailey has been making a study of the living 
Diatomacere and other minute organisms that occur in the 
Kennebecasis’ and St. John rivers, and of the fossil Infusoria 
found at the bottom of these waters. The Drummond company 
that are opening up the iron ores of Gloucester County have 
extended their railway connections to the Miramichi, near 
Chatham, where they will ship their ore from large pockets 
erected there. The ore is a magnetite from the Ordovician sla es 
of Gloucester County. 
Botany (G. U. Hay, Chairman*.) 
The following are additions of new and rare species of New 
Brunswick Plants, discovered during the past two seasons. The 
list is the result of investigations made by Professors M. L. 
Fernald, K. M. Wiegand and by G. U. Hay, were not otherwise 
specified. 
