BULLETIN 
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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
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NEW BRUNSWICK. 
ANNUAL AOnUESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 
IIISTOUrCAL SKETCH OF THE XATUK.VI. HISTORY SOCIETY. 
‘‘The thing that hath been it is that which shall be.” 
There is no new thing under the snn. In the infinity of 
differences there is after all an infinity of similarities. 
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Natural History 
Society of New Brunswick has passed, and the history of onr 
society does not differ from that of similar institutions. Its 
experience has been like that of others the world over. 
T’he law of progression is not always one continuous ad- 
vance. Night and day alternate in all things. Individuals, 
communities, cities, peoples and nations have their ebb and 
flow, and why not societies ? And such has been the ex- 
perience of the New Brunswick Natural History Society of 
this city. 
January 29th, 1862, a meeting was held in the Mechanics’ 
Institute for the purpose of forming a society for the cultiva- 
tion of natural science. Forty-two persons were present. 
Of that number seven remain upon our roll of membership. 
Of the others, twelve have died and twenty-three have with- 
drawn. 
