The sum of $43.60 was reported in the Savings Bank, but the society was still 
     
     unsuccessful in obtaining suitable rooms. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1891 
     
    

    
     The second annual meeting was held in the YMCA Parlours on Jan. 26, 1891. 
     
     The balance on hand stood at $60.60, with expenditures for the year having been 
     
     $4.58. Membership stood at twenty. Once again the perennial problem surfaced - 
     
     "the obtaining of a room for the constant use of the Society to be afterwards 
     
     used as a library and museum.” It was decided to publish an annual report with 
     
     notes and transactions and original papers. Following a clause by clause debate 
     
     the members also adopted a constitution, which included the following sub-sections: 
     
     name, object, officers, membership, fees (set at $1.00/yr or $10.00/life), 
     
     meetings and "bye-laws". 
     
    

    
     A newspaper clipping reporting the 13th Public Meeting of the Society held 
     
     on Feb. 2, 1891 indicated the possibility of repeating some of the less well 
     
     attended lectures of the previous winter, in order to obtain material to hold 
     
     more frequent lectures in 1891. 
     
    

    
     During the winter and spring of 1891 the big issue on the public mind was 
     
     the proposal to construct a tunnel under Northumberland Strait to connect P.E.I. 
     
     and New Brunswick, The Natural History Society arranged for one of its members, 
     
     Francis Bain, geologiSt and naturalist, to travel to Summerside to deliver a 
     
     lecture on the Geology of the Proposed Tunnel. The-talk was held in Market Hall 
     
     on Mar. 2 and fifteen cents admission was charged. Proceeds from the lecture 
     
     totalled $9.94; expenses included $3.50 for advertising and $5.00 for rental of 
     
     the hall. A newspaper reporting the event indicated "it is not unlikely that 
     
     arrangements may be made for a course of lectures by members of the Society in 
     
     Summerside”. 
     
    

    
     During the spring of 1891 public lectures sponsored by the society in 
     
     Charlottetown were filled to overflowing. In July the society published an 
     
     eight-page leaflet "List of Prince Edward Island Plants” by J. McSwain and F. 
     
     Bain. It contained some 430 vascular plants (including Lycopodiaceae) plus 17 
     
     marine algae. Entries were given in Latin and arranged by family. A notice 
     
     in the paper at the time invited anyone desiring a copy to send a self-addressed 
     
     envelope to the secretary. Anyone sending additions to the list, with specimens 
     
     for verification would be duly credited. 
     
    

    
     On Aug. 28, 1981 the second annual excursion was held. Wind conditions 
     
     prevented the boat from travelling to Governor's Island, the original destination, 
     
     so instead an enjoyable day was spent at Rocky Point. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1891-1898 
     
    

    
     Following the report of the Rocky 
     
     Point outing, entries in the society 
     
     minute book, inexplicably come to a halt. 
     
     There is no record of the reasons why 
     
     the society failed to reorganize that 
     
     fall, but it was not until 1899 that the 
     
     next meeting was recorded in the minute 
     
     book. In the intervening eight years 
     
     the only entry among the minutes is an 
     
     undated clipping entitled Botanical Club 
     
     of Canada: Phenological observations 
     
     made at Charlottetown during 1897. It 
     
     lists early dates for pollen shedding 
     
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