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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Club, many of whose members, however, owing to the pressing 
cares of life or the call to other fields of activity, were unable 
longer to promote the objects of the Society. Only two of this 
club are now living, and only one is still in active geological work. 
For six years after the Society was formed it continued to 
meet and work in the Mechanic’s Institute. Circumstances then 
induced it to move to the “ Board room” of the Grammar School, 
where it continued to meet and work for six years more. 
During the years the Society met in the Grammar School, 
Dr. Botsford resigned the presidency and was succeeded by Mr. 
William Jack. During those years we had several addresses at 
the monthly meeting and papers from Dr. Fiske, who had 
donated to the Society a fine series of the native wild ducks of the 
province; other papers came from educators, merchants and 
members of the civil service; and we had the faithful services 
of Mr. Adolphus Hoyt as Recording Secretary. 
In consequence of the diminishing number of workers it 
became difficult to get a quorum at the monthly meeting of the 
Society, and these regular meetings were suspended for several 
years. 
Owing to the dampness of the quarters at the Grammar 
School, which affected some of the articles in the museum, the 
Society in these years moved back to the Mechanic’s Institute, 
and placed their collections again in the Institute’s Museum 
room, but the monthly meetings were not resumed again for 
some years. The interregnum was partly due to the great fire 
of 1877, which swept away the Grammar School, where the 
Society had had its collections, but did nor reach the Mechanic’s 
Institute where they were at the time of the fire. 
About three years after the fire, feeling the need of a centre 
for the presentation and exchange of knowledge on matters 
connected with Natural Science, a reorganization of the Society 
was undertaken. In the eighteen years that had elapsed since 
the Society was originally instituted a new generation had grown 
up, and quite a number of members active in the earlier time 
had passed away or removed to other spheres of activity, and a 
new generation entered the Natural History field. The gaps in 
