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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
scale, and will afford a useful basis for plotting the geology of 
the city on a larger scale than has hitherto been possible. 
The past year, has seen a considerable development of the 
gas and oil deposits of the eastern part of the province; and 
arrangements have been made to supply the town of Moncton 
with gas from the bituminous rocks of Westmorland and Albert 
Counties. 
During the past season Professor Van Ingan has been making 
extensive studies of the Cambrian rocks of Newfoundland, and 
found the faunas closely related to those of the Cambrian at 
St. John, N. B. 
Library (James A. Estey, Librarian.) 
During the year, important changes have been made in 
the library. The Society’s collection of books has out- 
grown the room, used as a library, on the first floor, and a 
room on the third floor has been set apart as a working or study 
library. The tall, unsightly book shelves have been removed 
from the library, and four handsome bookcases substituted. 
In these are arranged the more valuable books, and works which 
are in constant use. 
In the Library, proper, the publications, in the English 
language, issued by scientific societies; Government reports 
and works of a like character are arranged alphabetically. On 
another series of shelves, are arranged books and pamphlets 
on the Natural History and Archaeology of North America. 
They are grouped as follows: 
Section 1. — Zoology — The Zoology of North America, 
General. 
Section 2. — -Handbooks, Lists and Catalogues of North 
American Mammals. 
Section 3. — Life Histories of North American Mammals. 
Section 4. — Mammals, of economic importance. 
Section 5. — Mammals, osteology and structure. 
Works on birds, fishes, reptiles, and invertebrates are sub- 
divided and arranged under separate sections in the same way 
