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5th, at Sandy Point, Kennebecasis ; August 15th, at Long Island, 
Kennebecasis ; August 26th, at McLaren’s Beach, Lancaster. 
In arranging the programme, it was deemed advisable to 
select points of interest near the city not visited by the Society 
within the last few years. With the assistance of Dr. Matthew. 
Dr. Hay and other leaders in the different branches, opportunity 
was offered for studying the different geological formations, the 
sea-coast and inland fauna and flora in all their variety. All of 
these meetings were well attended, with the exception of that 
to Long Island, due to threatening weather. The attendance at 
the other meetings varied from 45 to 65 or 70. The meetings 
were much enjoyed by the members attending, and it is felt that 
the Summer Field Meetings are a very useful and agreeable 
feature of the Society’s operations. 
The five meetings held in the summer of 1909 were very 
largely attended, and were among the most enjoyable and most 
successful from every point of view of any ever held by the 
Society. 
The first meeting of the series, held at Camp Nature, drew 
out a large attendance. Coming, as it did, at a time when nature 
is resplendent in its newly-acquired summer dress, when the 
days are longest, and the woods and fields are vocal with the 
singing of birds, every minute of the day, from the arrival at 
Camp Nature until the return, was thoroughly enjoyed by all 
present. The ramble through the woods was slightly curtailed 
by a passing shower, but a natural history outing would hardlv 
be complete without a sprinkle of rain, which, on that occasion, 
was not sufficient to cause any inconvenience. On return to 
Messrs. McIntosh and Leavitt's rustic camp, addresses were heard 
from Mr. McIntosh on trees, principally referring to the differ- 
ent kinds of maples ; by Mr. Leavitt on his favourite topic of our 
feathered friends and their enemies ; from Rev. D. Hutchinson 
on the pleasure and profit of nature study ; and from Mr. W. S. 
Fisher on the advantages of New Brunswick as a place of abode. 
Messrs. McIntosh and Leavitt, as usual, had in store a surprise 
for their visitors, which on this occasion took the form of a 
