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17! Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 



18. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 



19. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, 



20. Missouri Botanical Garden Annual Reports, 



21. Proceedings of the Hamilton Scientific Association. 



In addition to this list of periodicals, a considerable number 

 of miscellaneous publications are received during the vear. 

 Some of these are of much interest and value, but, as a rule, 

 they constitute reports of proceedings of meetings, catalogues 

 of birds and mammals, annual reports of societies, etc., and are 

 available elsewhere. There is on hand at present an accumula- 

 tion of a number of years representing some six or seven hundred 

 pamphlets, etc. These are practically all in the basement of the 

 Normal Schooland have been carefully examined and sorted. 

 The Committee suggest that these publications be made available 

 for free distribution to members of the Club on a certain date 

 and that due notice of this offer be made in the Ottawa 

 Naturalist. It is suggested further that after two weeks have 

 expired from the date on which this offer opens that the remain- 

 ing publications be placed in a convenient place in the Normal 

 School and made available to the students and to the general 

 public. 



The Librarian of the Club reports that approximately one 

 dozen complete sets of the Naturalist are now on hand, none 

 having been sold during the. year. Several single copies of back 

 issues and of the Fletcher Memorial number have been disposed 

 of. 



Owing to the renovation of the Carnegie Library, the Club's 

 books are now in the basement but will be placed in a special 

 section of the stack room in a short time. The Committee 

 recommend to the new Publications Committee that all publica- 

 tions of the Club be properly stamped, and that a select list of 

 the bound copies be placed on file in the reference library of the 

 reading room, providing this meet the approval of the Librarian. 



The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Volume XXIII of The Ottawa Naturalist, the official 

 organ of the Club, has been published monthly under the editor- 

 ship of Mr. Arthur Gibson. It contains 230 pages and three full- 

 page plates. 



The following are among the papers that appear in this 

 volume : 



On Geology 



1. "A Canadian Stepheoceras," J. F. Whiteaves. 



