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sap is commencing to revivify vegetation, the insects are crawling from 
their hibernating crevices ; a few days more and all nature will feel the 
rapid throbs of a new season of growth and development. Let us take 
every advantage of this finest season of the year, and leave cabinet 
and book-study to be true Field-Naturalists. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1892-93. 
To the Members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club : 
In presenting this, the fourteenth Annual Report of the work of 
the Club, your Council has much pleasure in stating that continued 
interest exists, and a large amount of valuable work has been accom- 
plished. The growing interest which the public of Ottawa is taking in 
the excursions and soirees of the Club is very manifest, judging from the 
attendance on these occasions, as also from requests for admission to 
our membership. 
One of the first duties of your Council after election was to appoint 
the various standing committees and leaders in the various branches, to 
give aid and information to members, and keep records of the season's 
work. Fourteen Council meetings were held during the year at which the 
routine and executive work of the Club was carried on. 
Twenty-nine new members were elected during the past year, 
whilst a few of our membership have gone, some out of the city to other 
portions of the country, while others we mourn. Amongst the latter 
are the following : 
Rev. Abbe Provancher, of Cap Rouge, Quebec- This zealous 
and relentless student of Botany and Entomology was elected a Cor- 
responding member of our Club in 1886. For many years he edited and 
wrote extensively for " Le Naturaliste Canadieu" published in Quebec. 
The Abbe" was the author of several interesting volumes on Natural 
History in the Province of Quebec 
William Pittman Lett. For upwards of nine years our late 
lamented City Clerk was an active member of the Club, and occupied 
the post of Leader in Zoology on several occasions. No one who had 
the pleasure to listen to Mr. Lett's graphic descriptions of the life and 
habits of the higher mammalia of Ottawa will ever forget them. 
