1907] Report of the Council 9 



June 9th, Rideau Park. 



June 16th, General Excursion, Galetta. 



June 23rd, Hemlock Lake. 



Sept. 18th, General Excursion. Chelsea. 



Feb. 9th, Snowshoe Tramp, Beaver Meadow. 



Feb. 23rd, Snowshoe Tramp, Rockliffe. 



The Club regards its excursions as the strongest means of 

 awakening public interest in its work and enlisting new members. 

 This year, special efforts had been put forth to make the excur- 

 sions as successful as possible, but an unusual number of rainy- 

 Saturdays interfered with the plans of the Club. When weather 

 conditions were favorable, however, the excursions were well 

 attended, and much good work was done, as appears in the re- 

 ports of the excursions published from time to time in The 

 Ottawa Naturalist. The snowshoe tramps have shown that 

 a great deal of field work can be carried on in winter. The 

 botanists, for example, observed at Beaver Meadow the distri- 

 bution of evergreens and deciduous trees, the occurrence of 

 species easily passed b}^ unnoticed in summer, the branching of 

 deciduous trees, the persistent fruit of the Climbing Bittersweet, 

 the characteristic winter appearance of the Juniper, various 

 methods of bud-protection, and many other interesting features 

 of winter vegetation. A continuance of field work in winter 

 would be certain to reveal many things to which attention has 

 not yet been directed because of the unfamiliarity of people 

 in cities with woods in winter. 



The Ottawa Naturalist. 

 Volume XX of The Ottawa Naturalist, the official organ 

 of the Club, has been published under the editorship of Mr. J. M. 

 Macoun. It consists of twelve numbers which contain in all 253 

 pages and tw^o plates. The following are among the papers that 

 appear in this volume: 



1. Notes on a Collection of Fossil Fruits from Vermont, in 

 the Museum of the Geological Survey of Canada, Dr. H. M. Ami. 



2. On the Structure of Roots, Theo. Holm. 



3. A May Morning with the Birds in New Brunswick, W. 

 H. Moore. 



4. List of some Fresh-water shells from Northwestern 

 Ontario and Keewatin, Dr. J. F. Whiteaves. 



5. The Migration of Birds, Rev. C. Eifrig. 



6. The Ottawa Species of Eriophorum, J. M. Macoun. 



7. A Sagacious Crow, A. H. Gallup. 



8. The Chambord Meteorite, R. A. Johnston. 



9. Nesting of Wilson's Snipe, Wm. L. Kells. 



