REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
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January 31 — Our Native Birds. 
February 14 — The Wood-Pulp Industry of Canada. 
February 21 — Forestry. 
February 28 — An Anglo-American Alliance. — Silas Alward, K. C., D. C. L. 
March 14 — Things not generally seen. — The Photographic Section of the 
Society. 
March 21 — What the Rocks have to tell us. — L. W. Bailey, Ph. D., LL. D. 
March 28 — Microscopic Illustrations, — William Warwick, M. D. 
In addition to the above the Ladies’ Association conducted 
two courses of lectures; and there were weekly talks in the 
afternoon on science, travel and museum topics for the junior 
members. 
Press (G. U. Hay, Chairman.) 
The Society is much indebted to the daily press of St. John 
for notices of meetings, and for the publicity given to its varied 
activities during the past year. 
FIELD MEETINGS. 
Caton’s Island (G. U. Hay.) 
On Saturday, August 19, the members of the Natural History 
Society joined with the members of the New Brunswick Histori- 
cal Society to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary 
of the founding of the first settlement in New Brunswick, by 
unveiling a stone tablet on Caton’s Island near Brown’s Flat 
on the St. John River. The tablet which was strongly cemented 
into the face of a cairn, constructed for the purpose, overlooks 
the cove into which entered some sailors and traders from St. 
Malo, France, in the year 1611, who established the first known 
settlement in New Brunswick. The Island which is now the 
property of Jas. Lowell, Esq., M. P. P., has had several owners 
in recent years. Its Indian name, and the only one recorded in 
its early history, is Emenenic; and it would seem fitting now in 
view of the recent memorial celebration, to revert to its old 
name. 
The harbor where these early settlers sought refuge is deep 
and well sheltered and there are springs of good water on the 
