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 EDITORIAL. 



Since our last editorial appeared in the May number ot the 

 Naturalist summer has come and arone. and snowstorms* and frosts 

 give warning of the ap[)roach of winter. The collecting season, for 

 most branches at least, is over, and we have no more pleasant 

 Excursions, or Saturday Outings to announce. The work of the Clab, 

 however, finds no stay ; it ends not with the summer, but merely 

 changes with the seasons. All the varied treasures gathered from field 

 and forest, frjm cliff and iiuany, have yet to be larefnlly examined 

 and prepared for the herliarium, or the cabinet, otherwise they will 

 be as useless as the miser's gold stored in hidden reces.ses, and will be 

 liable like it to be before long lost A grent store of speciineas in all 

 branches should be the result of tlie past season's work, facilitated as it 

 has been by so many Excursions and Outings. Amongst these speci- 

 mens must be many vnluable and rare species ; additions to our lists ; 

 perhaps forms new to science. These will require special and critical 

 study, in order that they may 1)3 properly recorded for the benefit of 

 naturalists elsewhere. 



Any member having notes of interest should, if they be not 

 intended for presentation in a special paper, forward th m without 

 tlelay to the Leaders of the several Branches, to enable them to prepare 

 their Reports on the season's labours and conquests. The Soiiee Com- 

 mittee has now nearly completed what we trust will be an attractive 

 programme for the Winter Lectures and Classes. This will appear in 

 full next month ; and the date for the first Soiiee has been fixed for the 

 9th December, when the Annual Address will be delivered by the 

 President Mr. R. B. Whyte. . 



A report will be found in this numljer of the Annual Meeting of 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario, which was held in the city for 

 the first time since the organizitiou of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' 

 01 ul). The meeting lasted two days, and, as the officers and members 

 of our Club hid received a cordial invitation to attend all the sessions, 



*Tlie fust of tlipso was on Sunday, 23rd October, when snow fell for scvi'inl 

 lionrs, and in unusunl (luaiitity for snoli an early ilate. A week later there was 

 anotiier lall lasting all day. 



