REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
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he has been occupied in company with other members of the 
Survey staff, in a re-study of the geology of northern Nova Scotia 
and of the southern part of New Brunswick, for the purpose of 
issuing a new geological map of this district. This map when 
published will give the latest information obtained by the Survey 
on the geology of southern New Brunswick. 
Dr. G. F. Matthew has been employed in collating the 
evidence as to the age of the series of red rocks in New Brunswick 
first described by the late Dr. A. Gesner as the Old Red Sand- 
stone, but by most later writers as Lower Carboniferous. The 
absence of marine organisms makes the determination of their 
age difficult, but seemingly both Devonian and Carboniferous 
deposits are present. 
Botany (G. U. Hay, Chairman.) 
On the 28th April last Rev. W. F. Gaetz and Clarence 
Thompson found, well established on limestone rocks near St. 
John the Daphne Mesereum, wfiiose purple rose-colored flowers 
were fully expanded at that early date. This plant is probably 
an escape from an old garden in the vicinity many years ago. 
This is its first recorded appearance in New Brunswick. 
The summer outings of the Society furnished material for 
observation in the localities visited. At Douglas Mountain, 
on the 24th June, the rocks on the summit were found to be 
abundantly covered with Potentilla tridentata in flower while 
the woods on the way up were fragrant with the perfume of the 
Twinflower Linjicea borealis. Some fine trees of red and white 
pine Avere seen on the southern exposure of the mountain. 
At Ashburn Lake which the members of the Society visited 
on the 5th July, some fine specimens of the mountain fly-honey- 
suckle {Lonicera Canadensis) were observed in fruit and in the 
woods near the lake an abundance of ground hemlock {Taxiis 
Canadensis) . 
At Woodman’s Point, July 15, the four-leaved loosestrife 
{Lysimachia quadrifolia) was observed, its only known habitat 
in the province. The fox-grape {Vitis vulpina) , witch hazel and 
other interesting plants were observed along the shore. 
