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Assembly Hall of the Norman School and three, including this 

 or the annual meeting, in the hall of the Carnegie Library. 

 The first lecture for 1909-10 entitled "Home Birds and Wan- 

 derers," was given by Mr.W. E. Saunders, of London, Ont., and 

 was illustrated with prepared birds' skins. The opening meeting, 

 which followed this lecture a few evenings later, took the nature 

 of a conversazione at which short addresses were delivered bv 

 a few members of the Club, besides which there was an exhibi- 

 tion of zoological, and botanical specimens, including some 

 minute forms shown under the lens of the microscope, and an 

 account of this meeting has already appeared in a recent issue 

 of The Ottawa Naturalist. We were next favoured with an 

 address by our President entitled "Instinct and Education," in 

 which was presented a great deal to stimulate our thinking 

 faculties; and following this was an admirable lecture given b}' 

 Mr. A. H. W. Cleave, F.R.M.S., entitled "Life," which was 

 illustrated with a series of beautiful lantern slides. A very 

 instructive lecture entitled "The Flora and Fauna of the West 

 Coast of Vancouver Island," was delivered by Professor John 

 Macoun and was illustrated with a great variety of interesting 

 specimens. For the first time under the auspices of the Club, 

 Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt and Mr. H. T. Gussow. F.R.M.S., each 

 contributed a lecture: the former on "House Flies and their 

 Relation to Public Health," and the latter on "A Plant Doctor 

 and His Work." A series of slides at each of these lectures was 

 shown upon the screen. The Club's lecture for the joint course 

 entitled "Bacteria in Relation to Plant Life" was given by 

 Professor F. C. Harrison, of the Macdonald College, and this 

 lecture also was fully illustrated with slides. Altogether the 

 Club is to be congratulated in that such an able body of 

 specialists was secured, and we owe to them a debt of gratitude 

 for the selection of their subjects, all of which proved to be 

 most interesting and instructive. 



The Fletcher Memorial Committee. 



This Committee has met many times during the Club year 

 which closes to-night. 



As has already been mentioned in the pages of The Ottawa 

 Naturalist, there has been a very warm response to the appeal 

 of the Committee for subscriptions, from members of the Club 

 and friends of the late Dr. Fletcher. On the evening of November 

 9th last, the Committee reported that by far the larger number 

 of subscribers had favoured the suggestion that the memorial 

 take the form of a drinking fountain to be erected at the Central 

 Experimental Farm. It was then therefore moved by Mr. F. T. 



