REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
379 
Expenditures — • 
Maintenance of Museum, $286 50 
Library books and binding, 8 75 
Printing and distributing Bulletin XXII, 267 31 
Sundries, 267 26 
Balance, 241 93 
$1,071 75 
Of the above balance, $33.00 is held in trust for the Ladies’ 
Association, and $40.00 for botanical work, as set forth in last 
year’s report. 
The Society owns, besides a $1,500.00 mortgage (protected by 
insurance), $1,000,00 special deposit in the Bank of Nova Scotia. 
It seems in order to again call attention to the Building Fund, 
which consists only of the donation of $10.00 in 1897, and the 
interest that amount has earned. The collections are insured for 
$2,500.00. 
A. Gordon Leavitt, 
Treasurer. 
Library. 
The books in the library have been re-arranged. A catalogue 
in manuscript has been prepared, a number of pamphlets bound, 
and others are ready to be sent to the binder. The assistant 
curator has taken charge of the work this year. There is urgent 
need of an active library committee to complete the work of 
cataloguing the books. 
Publications. 
Bulletin XXII has been published during the year, containing 
articles on natural science by various members of the Society, 
and fully as large and as well illustrated as any previous Bulletin. 
Several of the papers of more general interest read before the 
Society were published in the daily press. 
Lectures. 
Eleven regular meetings, including the annual meeting, and 
one special meeting, were held during the year. 
The following are the dates of the meetings and the titles of 
papers read : 
