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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
of the province. At a later time (1910 to 1912) he read 
a series of three papers on the Diatoms of New Brunswick 
(these diatoms are microscopic water plants that are the food 
of fishes etc.). 
Mr. Win. McIntosh at the beginning of the century 
wrote several articles on insects, with lists of the 
species occuring in New Brunswick. But since then he 
has given his attention chiefly to the study of Archaeology, 
on which he has contributed two papers to the Bulletin. 
We look to him for much useful information in regard to 
the insects and to a continuation of his exploration of the 
aboriginal camping grounds of the sunken lake-region in 
New Brunswick, especially as he is training young people 
to continue the line of investigation he has begun. 
To one of our honorary members, Professor W. F. Ganong 
we are indebted for more liberal contributions to the Bulletin 
than to any other member. For twenty years he has devoted 
his college vacation to the study of the wilderness region 
of New Brunswick and year after year has given the Society 
the result of these explorations in a series of papers on the 
Natural History and Physiography of this his native province. 
It will no doubt surprise many of our members to learn 
that over a third of the pages of our annual publication, the 
Bulletin, during the time I have named, have been from the 
pen of Professor Ganong. The vast amount of information 
on the wilder parts of the province gathered by him, have 
thus been made available to those who wish to know some- 
thing of the natural resources of our wilderness country. 
For actual workers on the natural history of New 
Brunswick, who are also contributors to the pages of the 
Bulletin, we seem to be reduced to two, viz Mr. McIntosh 
and Professor Ganong and it would appear that we should 
broaden out our work to cover a wider field. From the 
success which has attended the work of the Associate branch, 
it would seem that there might be much advantage in this. 
Their more important work consists largely in a series of 
literary and historical lectures. Even the central organiza- 
