34 Bulletm of Natural History Society. 
The collection of minerals is a good one and contains fine 
examples of the Nova Scotian zeolites and quartz minerals, 
and will add many species to those which the society previously 
possessed. The general collection of fossils and rocks also has 
many European and United States examples which will serve 
to extend our series of such objects. 
In the Gesner museum is the collection of rocks, minerals 
and fossils made by Dr. Gesner when employed on the Geologi- 
cal Survey of New Brunswick. These are of historical 
interest, and with them in hand the reader of Dr. Gesner’s 
reports will be able to understand what he meant by the 
terms serpentine,* and grauwacke, trap and other obsolete 
terms of geological literature. 
A good and useful piece of work for some member of this 
Society would be the study of this collection of Dr. Gesuer’s, 
to determine what are the modern names for his rocks. It 
should be remembered that Dr. Gesner’s survey was made 
when geology was in its infancy, and was the first undertaken 
by a provincial government in Canada; or, so far as I know, 
in any British colony. 
With the collections of this old survey, the society has 
acquired Dr. Gesner’s geological map of New Brunswick, 
which never was published, but which is necessary to the full 
understanding of his reports. 
In the Natural History part of the museum the society has 
received a considerable number of native mammals, which, 
though not all creditable as specimens of the taxidermist’s 
art, are useful to show the wild animals of our country to 
those who cannot visit them in their native haunts. 
Among the birds are a few groups of foreign birds which 
are a welcome addition to our museum and also some native 
species, but most of the native birds are duplicates of those 
already in the society’s collection. 
There are quite a number of reptiles and fishes, including 
some foreign species, and several small cases of European and 
Asiatic insects, some of them much faded, but the cases con- 
* “ 8611)61111116 ” is still iiS6cl, but not in tli6 sense in which Dr. Gesner emploj'ed it. 
