REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
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names are given where such exist. This coll eat ion will be 
enlarged during the coming year. 
Wm. McIntosh, Chairman. 
Botany. 
The Botanical Committee reports the discovery of a number 
of plants new to the province, some of which are from Miscou 
Island, reported by Dr. W. F. Ganong. These are held over for 
next year’s report. 
G. U. Hay, Chairman. 
Geology. 
Members of our Society have been engaged in active field- 
work during the summer, and have been in various parts of the 
province. Messrs. Leavitt and McIntosh have been studying and 
collecting in the Nerepis Hills, where the late destructive forest 
fires have laid bare large areas of granitic and other rocks. They 
have also been collecting fossils from the well known Devonian 
plant ledges in Lancaster, and have found some fossils of much 
interest to the geologist. 
Professor Ganong has pursued his studies on the geology and 
physiography of Gloucester county, tracing the pre-glacial river 
valleys of the southeastern part of the county, and studying the 
recent geology of Miscou Island. 
Dr. L. W. Bailey has been engaged in the search for fossils 
in the pre-Carboniferous rocks of York and Carleton Counties, 
and in obtaining information relative to the economic minerals of 
New Brunswick. Fossils collected by him were studied by Dr. 
H. M. Ami and were mostly of the marine animals called 
“graptolites.” 
Members of the staff of the Geological Survey have also been 
working in Charlotte county on the metamorphic slates of that 
portion of the province. These were Dr. R. W. Ells and Mr. 
Hugh Fletcher. The geology of this region is very complicated 
and difficult. 
Dr. G. F. Matthew has been busy arranging and labelling the 
type collection of Devonian fossil plants, collected by the late 
