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THE OTTAWA NATURALIST 



VOL. XXV. OTTAWA, A PR If,, 1911 No. 1 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE OTTAWA FIELD- 

 NATURALISTS' CLUB FOR THE YEAR ENDING 



MARCH .2 1st, 1911. 



In accordance with the new Constitution 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 the Council. 



Membership. 



During the year 27 new members have been elected, making 

 the present membership 316, composed of 308 Active Members 

 and 8 Corresponding Members. 



Publications Committee. 



The bound publications belonging to the Club occupy a 

 special section in the stack room of the Carnegie Library, where 

 they will be available to the general public as soon as properly 

 indexed. 



The unbound copies of periodicals which are received by 

 the Library regularly on behalf of the Club are placed on Hie 

 in the reading room, for a time, after which they arc laid away 

 for binding or for such purpose as the Club may decide. The 

 following is a list of these periodicals : 



1 . The Nature Study 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. 



1 1 . Torreya. 



12. The Wilson Bulletin of Ornithology. 



