ARTICLE III. 
RECORD OF OUR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 
By G. U. Hay. 
Two young naturalists, engaged in Dominion scientific research 
work in these provinces, who recently took part in an evening at 
the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, said that for 
equipment of audience room and museum, and for intelligent 
appreciation of a scientific subject by the audience, they had 
seen no Natural History Society in Canada to equal that in 
St. John. When it is recalled that the growth of the Society 
extends over but half a century and that the acquiring of the 
fine building in which the Society now has its home, and the 
rearrangement of its museum, is the work of but six years, 
it will be seen that members have cause for congratulation. 
At eight o’clock on the evening of November 12, the date 
appointed for holding the Society’s Fiftieth Anniversary, the 
audience room was comfortably filled with members, repre- 
senting the professional and business interests of the city, with 
tastefully dressed ladies, members of the Ladies’ Association, 
and with many bright young people, representing the Junior 
and Junior Associate branches, the hope of the Society in years 
to come; a gathering numbering fully five hundred persons. 
The President, Senator J. V. Ellis, in calling the meeting to 
order, referred to the half century mark which the Society 
had now reached so prosperously, its years of usefulness in the 
past, its present activities, and the promise for the future. 
He referred particularly to those who had been its founders 
and charter members, very few of whom are now living. These 
included Dr. G. F. Matthew, Dr. P. R. Inches, Mr. Joshua 
Clawson and Mr. Ellis himself, who were present this evening, 
and Chief Justice Barker, Judge Wedderburn and Mr. J. B. 
Hegan, of Charlottetown, who unfortunately were not able to 
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