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etc. This collection will be useful to show the grade of culture 
attained in ]N^ew Brunswick by the later people of the Stone Age. A 
set of cases for the geological collection is being made and will be 
ready in about a month. Besides these several new cases are neces- 
sary for the proper preservation, arrangement and exhibition of col- 
lections in the Museum, particularly the large herbarium of native 
and foreign ])lants, and the collection of birds’ eggs and nests. It is 
also desirable to have the rooms of the Society open to the public on 
certain days in each week, so that the valuable collections in the 
]\Iuseum may be made useful to all who desire to study them, and 
the Curators recommend that a suitable person be employed to take 
charge of the rooms and keep them open as above suggested. 
LIBRARY. 
The Librarian reports that there are now six hundred and fifty- 
seven bound volumes and pamphlets in the Library, sixty-four of 
wliich were added during the jiresent year. A few of these were 
purchased, the rest donated. 
BOTANY. 
The Botanical Committee are able to report that a List of Plants, 
revised and enlarged, has been prepared under the direction of Prof. 
Fowler of Queen’s University, with the assistance of the botanists of 
this Province. The List is published as one of the articles of this is- 
sue of the Bulletin. The work done since the first catalogue of plants 
,vas ])ublished has been considerable, the addition of species new to 
the Province quite large, and the range of rare plants greatly 
extended, as the subjoined list will show. The thanks of the Society 
are due to Prof. Fowler for the warm interest he has taken in the 
development of our Flora, and the self-imposed labors he has under- 
taken and so well accomplished. 
Owing to delays which have arisen in procuring cases ordered 
last summer for the Geological collection, a considerable balance 
appears in the hands of the Treasurer to the credit of the Society 
til is year, but an amount equal to this balance has been aj^propri- 
ated for the cases above referred to. The amount available for 
genei*al purposes during the coming year will therefore depend upon 
the sums collectable for members’ fees and the grant from the Pro- 
vincial Government. The grant received last year from the Provin- 
cial Government was appropriated as follows : 
