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APPENDIX. 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
THE OUTLOOK OF OUR SOCIETY. 
By G. U. Hay. 
("Read at the Annual Meeting, January 16, 1900.) 
After a four years’ term of office as president, it is fitting, in giving 
place to my successor, to pass in review the work of our Society, to 
see if we are making progress, and to note whether that progress is 
substantial and serves to interest the whole community in the objects 
which we seek to further. In handing over the responsibilities as 
well as the pleasures of leadership, it is a source of the deepest 
gratification to acknowledge the cordial and diligent support you have 
given to me as president, and to ask for that same hearty co-operation 
of effort for my successor. While our members are few, and the 
number of our active workers still fewer, it is a cause for congratulation 
to note the unanimity with which every department of work is 
earnestly taken up and pushed forward from year to year. If differ- 
ences of opinion have arisen, they have not for a single moment been 
allowed to interfere with the harmonious and useful work which the 
society is endeavoring to accomplish. Indeed, it must be that many 
of our members are called upon to make personal sacrifices in so 
unselfishly giving their time and abilities in furthering objects which 
have become very dear to us, and which, taken collectively, must be 
of some considerable material advantage to this province. 
In a society such as ours, there are two distinct objects which 
should be constantly kept in view, — first, to stimulate by papers, 
discussions and by social intercourse an interest in natural history, 
and to educate and direct public interest therein ; second, to carry on 
original research, so that not only our own people but the whole 
