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The collection of birds in our museum, chiefly the results in past 
years of the work of Mr. Chamberlain and his assistants is of great 
interest to visitors. Mr. Leavitt is not only increasing this important 
collection, but by his lectures on bird life and structure, their protection 
and migration, he is laying a good foundation for the study of bird 
life and habits. 
With the exception of birds and insects, our department of zoology 
is rather weak. Mr Rowe and his fellow-workers have done some 
service in making us acquainted with a few native reptiles and amphi- 
bians ; and I mention with pleasure the obligations we are under to 
Mr. W. A. Hickman, whose lectures and field work while with us 
have given an impetus in the study of zoology. 
In the department of archaeology a great interest has been aroused 
chiefly through the efforts of Dr. Matthew, Mr. S. W. Rain and Miss 
Jack. Our collection of native Indian relics is a very important one, 
and cannot fail, as the years advance, to become one of the most 
valuable portions of our museum. 
We have seen during the past few years one branch of our society 
steadily growing in importance — the Ladies' Association. Owing to 
its exertions our library has been catalogued and improved, our 
museum thrown open to the public three times a week by engaging a 
competent assistant curator; our financial condition is improved, and 
a general air of refinement and homelikeness given to our surroundings. 
There is a subject mentioned in the last two annual addresses to 
which I must make a passing reference in closing, and that is our 
pressing need of a new building, coupled with the equally pressing 
need of a stronger financial support for our society. We are doing a 
good work for the country ; we are doing it in rooms so limited that 
we can no longer find suitable accommodation for our museum ; and 
our finances are such that only the most rigid economy enables us to 
carry out and publish a meagre outline of what are the chief objects 
of this Society, namely, the carrying on original research in this pro- 
vince and publishing the results of it. With a new building and a 
larger income our society would enter upon a new era of usefulness. 
