REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
153 
Brought forward, $1,703 56 
Plates for Bulletin 17.81 
Screen for Reflectoscope ' 2.83 
Affiliation Fee Women’s Council 2.00 
Telephone 10.11 
Amount held for Ladies’ Association Returned 33.00 
Balance in Bank of New Brunswick 716.91 
$2,486.22 
Examined and found correct. 
October 18th, 1909, 
William McIntosh, 
W. L. McDairmid, 
Auditors. 
Our liabilities consist of two mortgages, amounting to $3,500, 
and a few unsettled matters, including the cost of repairs to 
building and out-buildings not yet completed, estimated at $100, 
in all $3,600. 
The building is insured for $8,000.00 and the collections for 
$3,500.00. 
The balance to the credit of “ Mortgage Account ” is $7.97. 
A. Gordon Leavitt, Treasurer. 
Curator's Report (Wm. McIntosh.) 
Herewith is my second report as curator of the museum of the 
Natural History Society of New Brunswick. The past season 
(1908), has been a busy one and, in many respects, most 
satisfactory, as much has been accomplished in preparing for the 
systematic arrangement of material. The collections have 
unavoidably been in great disorder and much of the work of the 
past nine months has been a preliminary arrangement of the 
material at the museum. These changes make an orderly 
arrangement possible. 
The following is a report of the work accomplished in the 
various departments of the museum during the past nine months : 
Zoology. — Early in the year we were fortunate in obtaining 
a specimen of the Snow Goose, this fine bird was not represented 
in the Society's collection. New stands are being prepared for 
mounting the foreign birds. These at present are distributed 
