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Canada this year. The Maritime excursion was in advance of 
the meeting of Congress, which assembled in Toronto a week 
later. The excursion spent only one day in St. John, but this 
was enlivened by a visit to Rockwood Park in the morning 
and a trip across the city in the afternoon, to the “Falls” 
and on to the “Bay Shore” and Duck Cove, where refresh- 
ments were served to the visiting guests. 
At the park these visitors were enabled to see the typical 
rocks of the Cambrian and pre-Cambrian ages that are 
exposed there. They spent some time in collecting fossils of 
Cambrian age from the well-known exposures on Seely street. 
Afterward they drove across the Cambrian Basin in the city of 
St. John noting the three sharply folded synclinals troughs 
which the Basin contains. 
Subsequently the*se geologists were enabled to gather from 
the sandstones and shales at the “Fern Ledges” and Duck 
Cove, remains of the very old plants which these beds con- 
tain, whose exact age still a matter of controversy. 
In the evening a reception was tendered the visitors at the 
rooms of the Society by the ladies of the Associate Branch, 
and the visitors were enabled to see the geological and 
other collections in the Society’s Museum. 
Archaeology (W. McIntosh, Chairman.) 
Considerable Archaeological work has been carried on in 
New Brunswick during the past year. In June, Harlan I. 
Smith. Dominion Archaeologist, visited the Maritime Pro- 
vinces and examined the archaeological collections in New 
Brunswick and Nova Scotian Museums, He also looked into 
the possibilities for archaeological research in eastern Canada. 
Later, Mr. Wintemberg of the Dominion Archaeological 
Staff examined a number of Indian village and camp sites on 
the east coast and spent some weeks working in prehistoric 
camp sites in Nova Scotia. 
Your Curator, accompanied by a number of the junior 
members, visited sixteen ancient village and camp sites during 
the summer. This collecting trip was very successful, many 
