president’s address 63 
The Bulletin contains the names of about a score of 
members who have been contributors to its pages in the 
past twenty years. Some of these have gone to other fields 
of labor, while others have joined the ‘‘great majority,” 
but the Bulletin will always tell of their devotion to Nature 
and their desire to unfold her secrets. Among former 
contributors to the Bulletin are Professor Philip Cox, now of 
the University of New Brunswick, who in in 1808 sent us 
an important paper on the fishes of the province which in 
a subsequent year he follows up by one on the shrews, etc. 
Mr. S. W. Kain was at this time secretary of the 
Society and in after years gave some valuable papers on 
wells, earthquakes, and the relics of the French period, of 
which latter he obtained quite a number for the museum. 
About this time Dr. W. D. Matthew who was an honour 
student at Columbia University spent some time in litho- 
logical studies around St. John, chiefly on the crystalline 
and volcanic rock of this vicinity. He presented three con- 
tributions to the Bulletin on this subject. 
Professor A. Wilmer Duff, in the “nineties,” gave some 
attention to the tidal phenomena of the St. John river, at 
its summer level and wrote two papers on this subject. 
Besides these there are several writers of papers that 
were printed in the Bulletin who might be described as 
occasional contributors. Such were two sons of Dr. L. W. 
Bailey, J. W. Bailey Esq. who gave a paper describing the 
great New Brunswick wilderness, and Dr. G. W. Bailey 
who wrote on the land snails of the province. 
Others who may be mentioned in this connection are 
Mr. G. J. Trueman, who wrote about the marsh region at 
the head of Chignecto Bay and James Vroom, who told of 
our numerous species of violets. At a later date Dr. J. O. 
Green communicated a paper on the game birds of Miscou 
Island. 
In 1903 and 1904 Professor L. W. Bailey contributed 
papers on the highlands of New Brunswick and on various 
forms of caves found along the shores, and in the interior 
