EDITORIAL. 
At the Annual Meeting, held on Tuesday, March 21st, Dr. Geo. 
Dawson was re-elected President of the Club. During the past year 
his connection w'th the important Behring Sea Arbitration caused him 
to be absent from Ottawa for much of the time, but as a satisfactory 
termination of this question may soon be expected, his presence with 
us this year will be more assured, and his interest in the success of the 
Club is such that he will be able to materially promote its welfare. 
All the old officers were re-elected except three, who are replaced by 
Mi. W. F. Ferrier, Miss A. Shenick and Miss A. M Living. The 
attention of members is requested to the announcement on a previous 
page, of the Standing Committees, Editorial Staff and Leaders, whom 
the Council has appointed for the carrying on of the various depart- 
ments of the Club s work. The former Editor, Mr. Fletcher, has been 
forced through pressure of work, and the distance from the city of his 
office, to resign his post, but he has promised his assistance to the 
incomer, and the Council has granted further aid by the appointment 
of Sub-Editors for the several branches of the scientific work of the 
Club. The start made in this direction during the past year, and the 
notes so published have proved acceptable to the members, but they 
should bear in mind that to make this section of the magazine really 
valuable and interesting, it will be necessary for each to make records 
and furnish notes to the sub-editors. The Council, in response to 
frequent enquiries, has authorized the re-printing of the Constitution, 
the only amendment to which, since its adoption at the Special Meet- 
ing, held March 28th, 1884, was made at the Annual Meeting in 
March, 1890, when the number of members in the Committee, of 
Council was enlarged from three to six, in order to specially provide for 
three ladies. Although the scope of the Club's work has been gradually 
widened to receive the benefits of investigations made by its members 
wherever they may be located, the special work for which it was organ- 
ized must still merit the chief attention, and although much has been 
observed and recorded of the Natural History of Ottawa, there still 
remains vastly more to be done. The season for out-door work and 
study is here ; the snow and ice are melting, the birds are arriving, the 
