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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE OTTAWA FIELD- 

 NATURALISTS' CLUB FOR THE YEAR ENDING 



MARCH 15th, 1910. 



In accordance with proposed amendments to the Constitu- 

 tion of the Club, the following report is largely a compilation 

 of reports submitted by the various branches of the Club and 

 the Standing Committees of Council. 



Membership. 



During the year 28 new members have been elected, making 

 the present membership 320, composed of 312 ordinary members 

 and 8 corresponding members. 



Publications Committee. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Council, 

 action has been taken by the Publications Committee toward 

 devising some practicable scheme whereby the publications 

 received by the Club might be of greater service not only to our 

 members, but to the public as a whole. As a result, arrange- 

 ments have been made with the Librarian of the Carnegie 

 Library whereby practically all regular periodicals received in 

 exchange are now placed on file in the reading room of the 

 Librarv and subsequentlv laid awav to be used as (directed by 

 the Club. 



The following is a list of the publications which are now 

 being received bv the Carnegie Library on behalf of the Club: 



1. The Nature Studv Review, 



2. The Auk, 



3. The Canadian Entomologist, 



4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 



5. The Journal of Geography, 



6. Le Naturaliste Canadien, 



7. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 



8. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 



9. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, 



10. The Ohio Naturalist , 



11. Torreva, 



12. The Wilson Bulletin of Ornithology, 



13. The University of California Chronicle, 



14. Queen's Quarterly, 



15. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, 



16. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 



