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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Curators. The additions to the Museum referred to 
called for several changes in the arrangement of specimens 
in the various rooms. The minerals and fossils have been 
moved to the large room at the top of the building, to make 
room for the various collections down stairs. The minerals 
from the Mechanics’ Institute have been arranged temporarily 
in their own cases, but much work remains to be done to 
incorporate them with our former collections. A list of the 
benefactors who have contributed to the museum during the 
year will be read in connection with this report. 
Geological Committee. The Committee on Geology 
make no very lengthy report as no concerted work in that depart- 
ment has been undertaken during the past year. The work 
done by the President, however, in connection with the fossils 
in the Laurentian Limestone near St. John, as described by 
him in papers read before this society, and published in the 
last issue of our Bulletin is of importance, especially as it 
may help to settle the much debated question whether the 
objects found in these old rocks are of animal origin or 
not. The discovery in the Post Pleiocene at St. Martins, of 
two fossils new to Canada, by another member of the society 
(Mr. G. Stead) is also worthy of mention. The committee 
recommends that during the coming year some special work 
in the study of local geology should be attempted, either by 
the revival of the field club, summer camps, or other means 
which would enlist the sympathy and co-operation of the 
largest possible number of members. 
Committee on Botany. The Botanical Committee make 
the following provisional report: The members of this com- 
mittee, with other botanists interested in the investigation of 
our local flora, have discovered over a dozen species of plants 
new to our province. The additions to our flora show that 
the interest among our students is still active. The committee 
hope that the study of plants will receive yet more attention, 
especially mosses, fungi and lichens, which are yet imperfectly 
known. 
Publication Committee. The ninth Bulletin of our 
society has been issued, and copies sent to the members. It 
