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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
show them to advantage. Our plants at present are only useful 
for reference. Little opportunity is given to the student for 
examination and study, especially of the shrubs and trees, the 
most important section of our flora. 
The botanical committee is keeping in view the early publica- 
tion of a revised up-to-date list of the plants of the province. 
Professor \\\ ¥. Ganong made an important study of the 
salt marshes under the title of “ The \Tgetation of the Bay of 
}"undy Salt and Diked iNIarshes : an Ecological Study." It was 
published in the Botanical Gazette, \o\. XXX\G, pp. 161-186, 
280-302, 349-367, 429-445, September to December, 1903. 
Additions have been made to the list of fungi published in last 
year’s Bulletin. These additions representing some rare species 
of our larger fungi will be published in the next Bulletin. 
Field Work. 
The field work of the Society, as a whole, was confined to a 
series of Saturday excursions in the month of June. These were 
conducted by different members of the Society for the purpose 
of studying the geology, plants and animals of the park and other 
places near the city. An effort should be made to carry out these 
field meetings in future seasons on a more extensive scale, and 
especially to get as large a number of young people as possible 
interested in nature-study. If these become interested in sum- 
mer, they will be desirous of crowding into our lecture-room and 
museum in the winter months. 
If our members could devote a little more time and enthusiasm 
to field meetings, and to the holding of a summer camp, which 
has been a great source of interest and advantage to us in years 
past, it would be a great benefit to the Society. 
General. 
The grateful acknowledgments of the Society are tendered 
to those gentlemen who have prepared papers for the meetings 
and for publication in the Bulletin, especially to Professor W. F. 
Ganong, who has done so much in his papers on physiography 
.and natural history to make us acquainted with the wild and 
