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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
excellent work in the study of our native birds and in adding 
largely to the collections in this department of the museum. 
Mr. Chamberlain is also responsible for the establishment of our 
Bulletin, for under the old organization of the Society, articles 
that were thought of permanent value were contributed to the 
“Canadian Naturalist and the Canadian Record of Science, ” 
published in Montreal. 
Seven years after this Mr. Chamberlain moved to Boston, 
became Dean of the Laurence Scientific School at Harvard, 
and was unable longer to continue his work for the Society; but 
he left a good second in Mr. F. W. Daniel, who was chairman 
of the Ornithological Committee -dor several years, and Mr. 
Alt'. Morrissey, who contributed several papers on birds. 
Some important changes were made in the organization 
of the Society at this time. The fee of the “ordinary” member 
was reduced and a new class of “Associate” members was added, 
which in later years was to show a remarkable development. 
After a sojourn at the Institute for two (one and one-half) 
years the Society obtained more commodious quarters in the 
new market building on King Square, from the Common 
Council, and the Museum and Library were moved there. 
In 1883 the Society was incorporated by Act of the Provincial 
Legislature, and in 1884 a corporate seal was designed and 
adopted. The design on the seal has for its centre a large 
crustacean animal of the Cambrian time, found at St. John, 
enclosed by two characteristic plants from “Fern Ledges” 
near St. John; while the upper part of the shield contains a 
bird mounted for exhibition, an emblem of the zealous work 
of the ornithological committee. 
The papers presented at the monthly meetings after the 
re-organization of the Society show mingled among the Society’s 
workers of an earlier time a number of new names as contri- 
butors: Messrs. Hay, Ganong, Best, Chalmers, Kain, Cham- 
berlain, Morrissey, Estey and others. 
About 1890 another important move was made by the 
Society in the purchase of the Mechanic’s Institute Museum, 
and the taking over of the Gesner Museum which was in the 
charge of the Mechanic’s Institute. 
