BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
15S 
Donations. — During the year 1524 specimens have been 
presented to the museum, a list of these will be found in the 
appendix. 
Inventory. — The number of specimens in the museum and 
books in the librarv are as follows: 
Mineralogy and Geology . 4,101 
Palaeontho’cgy 3.502 
Botany 7,281 
Zoology n,347 
Archaeology 2,954 
Total 29,185 
Library 12,15 3 
Grand total 41.338 
Collecting. — The following specimens were collected since 
our last report: Botany, about 150; Zoology, 516; Rocks. 98; 
Fossils, 221. 
Over 500 verbal enquiries have been answered, 331 business 
letters written exclusive of acknowledgments of donations to the 
museum and library, and many hundreds of specimens named 
for collectors and others. The number of visitors to the museum 
was 3248. 
A number of teachers brought classes to the museum and gave 
instruction using our collections for illustration. Several classes 
arranged for special lectures. 
Committee on Geology (G. F. Matthew, Chairman.) 
1908: Samples of the rocks and soils of Prince Edward 
Island, of the same age as similar ledges on the eastern side of 
New Brunswick, have been added to the museum: also a number 
of fossil plants from the cordaite shales of Barrack (Oil-tank) 
Point, south end of the City of St. John ; and specimens of the 
phosphate beds of South Carolina. Mr. W. J. Wilson, of the 
Canadian Geological Survey, has been studying the Upper 
Devonian and Lower Carboniferous strata in Southern New 
Brunswick, and collecting fossil plants and other organisms with 
a view of determining more exactly the age of these formations. 
1909: Dr. G. F. Matthew’s Palaeontological cabinet, which 
he has offered to the Society as a gift, on condition that the 
