REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
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Report of the Ladies' Association. 
1908: It is with great pleasure that I herewith present the 
annual report of the Ladies’ Association of the Natural History 
Society of New Brunswick, and am able to speak so favourably 
of its work during the past year. 
It is very gratifying to know that our membership continues 
to increase and that the Association has been able to give sub- 
stantial help to the finances of the Society, as well as to arrange 
for courses of afternoon lectures that have been very popular 
and instructive. These lectures we are proposing to continue 
during the present season (1908-09), and have already secured 
a number of ladies as lecturers, whose addresses will maintain 
the high standard reached the past season. The subject of these 
lectures will be found in the Lecture Programme. The Associate 
membership now reaches about three hundred, which is not very 
far from doubling the number reported last year, and the number 
of life members continues to increase. 
As in the previous year, the ladies have found means to pay 
the salary of the assistant librarian, Miss Hoyt, who also is 
corresponding secretary of the Ladies’ Association, and, with an 
improved knowledge of the wants of the Society, her services 
have become increasingly useful. One of the most promising 
undertakings of our Association during the past year is the 
establishment of a Girls’ Branch, in which there are at present 
twelve members. We hope that these young people will take up 
scientific work with the same enthusiasm that the boys of the 
Junior Branch have displayed. 
The annual meeting of the Ladies’ Association was held in 
October, and the following officers were elected : President, Mrs. 
G. F. Matthew ; Vice-presidents, Mrs. G. U. Hay, Mrs. G. F. 
Smith and Mrs. John H. Thomson ; Recording Secretary, Mrs. 
C. A. Macdonald ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss F. A. Hoyt ; 
Treasurer, Miss Grace W. Leavitt. 
1909 : The Ladies’ Association has much pleasure in stating 
that the past year has been one of harmony and progress in all 
its branches. It is gratifying to note that we have had a steady 
