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Annual Report of the Council 



To the Members of tJie Oltaioa Field- Naturalists Cluh : 



Tlie Council has much pleasure iu reporting that the present con- 

 dition of the Club is very satisfactory, and that during the year just 

 closed its work was cai'rieJ on with increased success. 



At the cominenceraent of the year there were 170 members, and 

 these have increased to 200 ; the number of new members elected 

 having been 48. 



No additions have been made to the list of corresponding members, 

 of whom there are at present six. 



The Excursions held during the summer were very enjoyable and 

 were I'l-gely attended. They were five in number, and the following 

 places wri'e visited: -Kingsmere, Aylmer. Buckingham, Britannia and 

 Kirk's Ferry. 



Sub-Excursions were held every Saturday afteinoon throughout 

 the season and numbered twenty-one. They were well attended, and 

 proved very pleasant and profitable to all present. 



The winter course of meetings comprised six Soirees and ten After- 

 noon Lectures ; the former being held on alternate Thursdays and 

 the latter every Monday, commencing 9th January. At the Soirees the 

 following Papers and Reports were read: Dec. 8th, " President's Inau- 

 gural Address," Mr. R. B.\Yhytej Jan. 5th, "Testimony of Ottawa Clays 

 and Gravels to the expansion of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Canadian 

 Lakes within the Human Period," Mr Amos Bowman ; Report of the 

 Geological Branch ; January 19th, " Cur Forest Trees," Prof. Macoun ; 

 "Notes on Geological Work during the Summer of 1887," Mr. John 

 Stewart; " On Utica Fossils from Pddean," Mr. FT. M. Ami; February 

 2nd, ''Vegetable Parasites," Mr. James Fletcher; Report of the Ento- 

 mological Branch ; March 1st, "Preliminary Notes on the Chazy at 

 Aylmer, Qua," Mr. T. W. E. Sowter ; "Our Squirrels," Mr. J. Eallan- 

 tyne ; Report of the Ornithological Branch ; March IGth, " Autumn on 

 tlie Ottawa," Mr. A. O. Wheeler ; " On the Sequence of Strata about 

 Ottawa," Mr. H. M. Ami; Report of the Conchological Brunch. 



