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THE OTTAWA NATURALIST 



VOL. XXX. 



OTTAWA, APRIL, 1916 



Xo. 1 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATUR- 

 ALISTS' CLUB, 1915-16. 



The Council of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club has the 

 honour to report on the work of the past season 1915-16. 



Standing committees, the Editor and Associate Editors of 

 The Ottawa Naturalist, the Librarian, and leaders of the 

 respective branches, were elected at the first meeting of the 

 Council, held on the 1st of April, 1 c > 1 5 . Four meetings of the 

 Council were held during the year, and a fifth called for 16th 

 of March, but owing to lack of a quorum no regular business 

 could be transacted. 



The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Under the continued editorship of Mr. Arthur Gibson, 

 The Ottawa Naturalist, the official organ of the Club, has 

 appeared regularly during the year, volume XXIX having been 

 completed. Among the more important papers published in 

 the volume, several of which are illustrated by plates or text 

 figures, the following may be mentioned: 



Suggestions for Ornithological Work in Canada, by P . A. 

 Taverner. 



A Case for Small Museums, by Harlan I. Smith. 



On the Validity of the Genus Plethopeltis, by R. M. Field. 



Revision of the Canadian Species of Agelacrinites, by Percy 

 E. Raymond. 



Minerals from Baffin Land, by T. L. Walker. 



Quebec Dragon-flies, by Rev. T. W. Fyles. 



The Dangers of our Wilds, by Charles Macnamara. 



Mimicry Some of Xature's Strategems. by B. C. Tillet. 



A New Crdovician Pelecypod from the Ottawa District, 

 by Alice E. Wilson. 



Shallow Water Deposition in the Cambrian of the Cana- 

 dian Cordillera, by L. D. Burling. 



