Eleventh Annual Report, 
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on “ Some Medicinal Plants of New Brunswick,” referred to in an- 
other place In this report; to S. W. Hatheway, Esep, of Boston, 
for a paper on “The Chemical Effects of Alcohol;” to Henry 
W iLMOT, Esq., of Eredericton, for a set of maps and the Report 
of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1878-79, and to 
Mr. James Vroom, of Saint Stephen, for important and valuable 
assistance rendered to the Botanical Committee in preparing the 
list of plants appended hereto. The Council take this opportu- 
nity of expressing a wish that other corresponding members would 
furnish the Society with papers and contributions from time to 
time ; as many of them, from their knowledge of the natural re- 
sources of the Province, are in a position to collect facts of great 
interest and value. 
REPORT OF THE CURATORS. 
The Curators do not feel able to present a full and connected 
report on the condition of the. Museum, owing to the fact that most 
of the collections have been packed up in order that the cases in 
which the minerals, etc., were contained might be temporarily 
used to protect the birds until others better adapted for them 
could be procured. 
Since the last annual meeting most of the collections have 
been removed from the Museum of the Mechanics’ Institute to the 
rooms now occupied by the Society in the Market Building. 
Among these are the minerals, most of the fossils, the radiates 
and the birds. There still remain at the Institute the other verte- 
brate and invertebrate animals, some fossils, and the archaeological 
collections. All the cases have been removed from the Institute 
except the large centre case. 
Numerous additions have been made to the Museum in 
several of its departments during the past year. The largest con- 
tribution is from the Ornithological Committee, the members of 
