Appendix — (Report of the Council. 
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The Treasurer’s Report, for the year ending 18th January, 
shows the receipts to be $475.33, and the expenditure $242.96., 
The expenditure has been chiefly for the publication of the 
Bulletin of 1885-6 (No. V.), and for furniture and material 
for the museum. 
About eighty books and pamphlets have been donated to 
the library, and several volumes of the American Journal of 
Science and Art purchased to fill deficiencies in the series. 
Some valuable additions to the museum have been made 
during the past year, and among others a collection of the 
Marine Invertebrates of the Atlantic coast, received from the 
National Museum at Washington. A variety of other objects 
have been given of which mention is made in the list of 
donations. The work in the museum during the past year 
has been chiefly in the arrangement of part of the geological 
collections, and in revision and re-arrangement of the mol- 
lusca. The museum is very deficient in collections from 
Mesozoic and Cenozoic formations. 
The Botanical Committee have given the results of their 
work during the season in the Report published herewith. 
The chairman of this committee has also prepared for the 
Bulletin a list of the Marine Algae of the Maritime Provinces, 
w r hich includes the observations of A. H. MacKay, B. A., of 
Pictou, N. S. The chairman also reports that valuable assist- 
ance was received from Messrs. John Brittain, J. Vroom, W. 
F. Ganong, C. H. Livingston, and J. Moser. 
The Committee on Ornithology report that they have con- 
tinued their observations on the migrations of birds, and 
have also added to their knowledge of the distribution, within 
the limits of the Province, of the species which are known 
to occur here. The committee desire to acknowledge the 
efficient assistance that has been afforded them in both 
branches of their work by Mr. John Brittain, Petitcodiac, 
Mr. Philip Cox, Newcastle, Miramichi; Mr. Louis M. Todd,. 
Calais; Mr. Howard H. McAdam, St. Stephen; and Mr. 
Gabriel DeVeber, Gagetown. 
The society had no “summer camp” during the past 
season, but on 1st July a field meeting was held at Nerepis,. 
