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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Educational Work . — A series of lectures for young people 
was given during the winter, and a number of teachers brought 
classes for talks on objects in the museum. The loan collections 
to schools have been continued; the teachers value these collec- 
tions very highly, but I regret to say that, with our scant material, 
we cannot nearly supply the demand. 
Giving Information . — The museum is becoming a Bureau of 
Information on Natural Science subjects, over 2,043 specimens 
having been received for identification, sent in by about 1,000 
persons. 
The Curator gave a number of talks in the City schools on 
Nature Study and Acadian Archaeology, and several lectures 
in other parts of the Province. He was also a member of the 
lecture staff on the ‘‘Better Farming Special.” 
Archaeology (William McIntosh, Chairman). 
During the earlier part of the summer, the Curator examined 
the region between Fredericton and French Village; a rude axe, 
two arrowheads and pottery fragments were found on the old 
village site at Savage Island. Flakes of felsite, chalcedony, 
jasper, etc., were found in a number of places between Freder- 
icton and Bear Island, indicating Indian camp sites, or at least 
showing where a prehistoric arrow-maker had worked. 
Later in the season, McDonald’s Point was visited. 
The only object of importance found in this place was a 
very fine Indian implement shaped like a spade or hoe, 
of the type called by American archaeologists an agricultural 
implement. It is made of beautifully banded slate, twelve 
and one-half inches in length, eight and one-quarter inches wide 
at one end and five and one-quarter at the other, and is not 
over three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Flakes were 
found in abundance but no other implements or pottery. David 
Balmain, of Indian Point, gave some interesting relics, the most 
valuable being a broken stone dagger, the handle of which is 
pecked and ground to fit the hand. This, I believe to be the 
only example of this form of knife ever found in the Province. 
