REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
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cases have been placed. In these will be found a collection of 
foreign shoes and hats, and a collection of pottery ware, the 
work of mound builders and cliff dwellers. The removal of this 
material from the Ethnological room gave opportunity for the 
installation of New Brunswick relics. We hope soon to have 
sufficient local material to entirely fill this room. All the objects 
in the Ethnological department have been re-arranged. 
Donations. — During the past nine months there has been 
seventy accessions to the museum, giving a total of 2,088 speci- 
mens. A list of the donations will be found in the appendix. 
Inventory. — The number of specimens in the museum and 
books in the ibrary are as follows : 
Minera’ogy and Geology 
Palseonthology 
Botany 
Zoology 
Archaeology 
Total 
Library 
Grand total 
3,903 
3,i8i 
7,031 
10,131 
2,754 
27,000 
n,i97 
38,197 
Collecting. — During the summer the following specimens 
were collected: Botany, 816; Zoology, 419; about 500 Fossils; 
Minerals, 22; Archaeology, 11 ; making a total of 1768 specimens. 
648 labels have been prepared since the last report was read. 
There has been a very rapid development of the educational 
work of the Society during the past eighteen months. Almost 
daily, persons come to the museum seeking information, and 
during the nine months covered by this report, 417 verbal 
enquiries have been answered. 217 business letters have been 
written, and over 2000 specimens have been determined. 
The number of persons who visited the museum during the 
past nine months was 2,753. 
During the year small collections of common birds, insects,, 
minerals, and Indian relics, have been loaned to the city schools.. 
So anxious were the teachers to obtain the limited material 
available for this purpose that the specimens were engaged 
weeks ahead. 
