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Besides the above there were five free lectures on Elementary 
Science, as follows : 
February 19^A — W. F. Best, The Atmosphere. 
March \Wi and 25^A — W. F. Coleman, M. D., Anatomy and Physi- 
ology of Digestion. 
April 15^A — M. Chamberlain, Winter Birds. 
May — G. U. Hay, Fertilization of Plants. 
December — L. C. Allison, M. D., Public Hygiene. 
COUNCIL MEETINGS. 
The Council has met seventeen times for the despatch of business. 
A Conversazione was held January 25th, and a Field Meeting in 
connection with the Eclectic* Reading Club July 12th. Both were 
largely attended and successful. 
The Treasurer reports that the total income of the Society for 
the year is $402.32, and the expenditure is $192.34, leaving a balance 
of $209.98 ^ on hand January 16th, 1885. 
The Curators report that a set of cases for insects has been 
obtained, and that the collection of insects of the vicinity of St. John 
made by Mr. Herbert E. Gould, and also those presented by Mr. 
Gibson Williamson and others, have been arranged and catalogued 
by Mrs. C. E. Heustis, so that they are now available for comparison 
and study. Important additions to the Museum in the department 
of Archaeology have been made during the past year. Two of these 
are worthy of special mention. Dr. J. Baxter of Chatham has very 
generously presented to the Society a skeleton (probably of the early 
French period) exhumed at Tabusintac in Northumberland County, 
and with it remains of fur clothing, birch bark, and fragments of 
coarse cloth and cordage, all of which were found buried in three large 
iron-rimmed copper kettles at the mouth of the Tabusintac River. 
The other donation to the Museum in this department is the large 
collection of objects brought from Bocabec by the Summer Camp 
party of 1883. The greater part of these have been examined, class- 
ified and placed temporarily in one of the cases in the Geology 
Room. They consist of implements in stone, bone and ivory, frag- 
ments of pottery, bones of various animals used for food, shell-fish, 
1 This amount has been appropriated for cases referred to in 'the 
Curators’ Report. 
