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objects of our Society. Unfortunately our rooms, difficult of 
access and cramped in space, do not afiford the opportunity of 
carrying out some work that we might attempt in the wav ot a 
better arrangement and display of our archaeological, botanical 
and other natural history specimens, and fitting up a more 
attractive library room. 
Library and Museum. 
The library and museum have been open to visitors three 
afternoons of each week — Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 
Ihe assistant curator. Miss Florence A. Hoyt, has attended very 
promptly and faithfully to her duties. 
The number of visitors during the year has been seventy-eigh: 
adults and 357 children. 
Additions have been made to the collections in the museum 
during the year, the most valuable being that of specimens of 
insects, representing the beetles, by Mr. Win. McIntosh. 
Changes are now being made in two of the principal rooms of 
the museum, — adding to the cases, cleaning the walls, renovating 
the specimens and displaying them to greater advantage. These 
changes will be greatly appreciated by members and visitors. 
Archaeology. 
During the year this subject of archaeology has received 
attention from Dr. A. C. Smith, of Tracadie. He has for many 
years been an energetic member of our Society, and has made a 
number of valuable contributions to our museum. He has carried 
on researches in the vicinity of Tracadie which have shed much 
• light on the life and early history of that part of the province. 
At our January meeting he presented, through Dr. iMatthew, 
a note on ancient modes of sepulture observed by him in an old 
graveyard near Tracadie. Accompanying his note were several 
illustrative specimens. He has received our hearty thanks for 
the excellent work he has done. 
S. W. Kain has published two short papers during the year : 
(1) An Old Religious Medal, Acadicnsis, Yol. HI, pp. 96-97, 
1903. 
(2) Trade Pipes, Acadicnsis, Vol. HI, pp. 255-258, 1903. 
