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these qualities, — incentives to every worker, no matter how limited 
may be his field of enquiry. Shall we not profit by his example ? 
feeling that in the interest he always took in our society, he saw in it 
the evidence of a live spirit of research, and that bent for original 
investigation which characterized his own work. 
It may be well to glance — and I shall do it very briefly — at some 
of the results of our investigations of recent years. It is well to pass 
in review occasionally the results of our work. It is a stimulus to 
increased effort in the future, because if we glance at present work 
alone we are apt to be discouraged at the small results accomplished 
in one season. 
In geology Dr. Matthew has narrowed his work to the almost 
exclusive study of the fossil remains found in the slate beds that 
underlie the city of St. John. The results, published from time to 
time in our Bulletin, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, and 
elsewhere, have attracted the attention of specialists throughout the 
world, the thoroughness and importance of the work being attested to 
by the large number of new species which have been added to science 
as a result of his investigations. This chapter of our geological 
history, when it comes to be written, will furnish a striking illustration 
of persistent and patient enquiry on the part of one of our members. 
In botany scarcely a year has elapsed during the past twenty 
years in which some additions have not been made to the list of plants 
of New Brunswick. Many new areas have been examined and notes 
made of their agricultural capabilities, and of the species of plants 
found there. A new and revised edition of our flowering plants is 
greatly needed, and it is hoped that this will be prepared very soon. 
It is a sign of progress, also, to note that more attention is being 
given to the habits of plants, and how they adapt themselves to 
conditions of climate, soil, etc. A great impetus has been given in 
this direction by the publication of Prof. Ganong's papers on ecology 
and kindred subjects. Another indication of progress is seen in the 
beginning that has been made to study the flowerless plants of the 
province, especially the mosses, by Mr. John Moser, and the interest- 
ing list of fungi furnished to the Society by the Misses Van Horne 
and others. When one sees valuable food material such as exists in 
mushrooms, yearly going to waste for want of a better knowledge of 
