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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE LADIES’ ASSOCIATION OF THE 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
The work of the associate members has gone on as usual 
during the past year. The number of members has increased 
largely, being now nearly one hundred, and the interest in the 
work of the Society has grown in even greater measure. 
The Thursday afternoon lecture course for 1903-4 was ex- 
ceptionally good, and very well attended. Of special value and 
interest were the lectures to the children. The school children 
attended in large numbers. Invitations were sent to the teach- 
ers of certain schools to select a number from their classes who 
would be interested in the subject for each date respectively, and 
invite them to the lecture. So many came that the rooms were 
overcrowded, and the regular members of the Society could not 
even find standing room. We felt the need of more commodious 
rooms. 
We were delighted to welcome to our course of lectures Miss 
Ganong, of Rothesay, who gave two lectures, one on the Mol- 
lusca and one on the Singing Birds. After the second lecture 
Miss Ganong made an appointment to meet the young pupils in 
Rockwood Park at seven o’clock of a Saturday morning to give 
them a practical lesson in distinguishing birds by their song. To 
her surprise no less than fifty came out to the Park to make 
acquaintance with the birds in their native haunts. 
In the beginning of the summer the Ladies’ Association 
united with the ladies of the Historical and Loyalist Societies in 
arranging for a picnic and drive to Duck Cove in given honor of 
the Royal Society of Canada, which was holding its annual meet- 
ing at St. John on the occasion of the Tercentenary of Champlain’s 
discovery of the river St. John. The weather proved disagree- 
able, but apart from this the entertainment was a success in every 
way. 
A programme of lectures for this winter has been arranged, 
and is being carried out. It began with a conversazione, which 
