APPENDIX 
THE KEPOKT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council beg to submit the following account of the 
condition of the society and the work done during the past 
year. 
The membership has been increased by the addition of 
several ordinary, corresponding and associate members. 
Dr. Bailey, of Fredericton, has been made an honorary mem- 
ber, and Messrs. Chamberlain and Hay added to the life 
members. 
The Sixth Annual Bulletin was published during the sum- 
mer, and copies distributed to members, etc. 
Meetings . — During the year eight regular meetings were 
held, at which papers were read as follows: 
1887. 
Feb. 1. Algae of New Brunswick, by G. U. Hay, M. A. 
Mar. 1. Florida and the Baliamas, by D. R. Jack. 
Arr. 5. A Business Meeting. 
]May 3. Notes on Ornithology, by Messrs. Chamberlain, Cox and 
3Iorrisey. 
Nov. 1. A Basal Series of Cambrian Rocks in Acadia, by G. F. Mat- 
thew. (Published in Canadian Record of Science). 
Dec. 6. Origin of the Southern Fauna in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 
by W. F. Ganong, B. A. 
1888. 
Jan. 3. On the Arctic Character of the Surface Fauna of the Bay of 
Fundy, by Prof. J. W alter Fewrkes. 
Library . — A large number of books and pamphlets have 
been added to the Library, many in exchange for the Bulletin. 
Of these the more important are the Monographs and Bulle- 
tins of the United States Geological Survey. 
