PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE 

 OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 



At a meeting of the Council of the Ottawa 

 Field-Naturalists' Club held on January 15, notices 

 of motion to amend the Club Constitution as fol- 

 lows were given : 



ARTICLE III. Membership 

 (2) Members. Anyone interested in Natural 

 History may upon application, be elected by Coun- 

 cil, or by the committee of Council resident in Ot- 

 tawa and charged with that responsibility, as a 

 member of the club. Payment of the annual fee 

 shall be a necessary condition of the continuance 

 of membership. 



(b) Fellows. There shall be elected, from 

 among the Canadian workers in anthropology, 

 botany, entomology, geology, paleontology, ornitho- 

 logy, and zoology, ten charter fellows. To this 

 number shall be added yearly, in the manner out- 

 lined below, not less than one nor more than three 

 fellows. 



The methcd of election for the charter fel- 

 lows shall be as follows. The council, at the first 

 meetmg subsequent to the annual meeting on March 

 18, 1919, shall draw up a list of the fifty members 

 of the club who seem most competent to perform the 

 duties required. To each of these, as well as to 

 each professor, associate professor, and assistant 

 professor of the sciences mentioned in the Pro- 

 vincial Universities of Canada, and in the Univer- 

 sities of McGill, Toronto, Queen's, and Laval 

 (Montreal), shall be sent a request that he draw 

 up a list of the 25 Canadian workers in the 

 sciences mentioned ranking them from I to 25 in 

 the order of eminence. These lists shall be en- 

 closed in a sealed blank envelope, and forwarded 

 in a larger endorsed cover to the Secretary. They 

 shall be counted and evaluated by a committee ap- 

 pointed by the Council and announcements of 

 the result shall be made as soon as possible in 

 the Ottawa Naturalist, suitable notitication being 

 forwarded to each fellow elect. Subsequent elec- 



tion shall be conducted similarly, except that the 

 number of candidates ranked by each elector shall 

 be 15 instead of twenty-five, and the election shall 

 take place sufficiently prior to the annual meeting 

 in order that the result may be announced at that 

 time. 



The law of averages is such that a group of 

 75 or more lists prepared in the way suggested 

 will enable the club to know that the men selected 

 deserve the honor which will come to them with 

 election as fellows of the club. 



ARTICLE V. Officers. 

 Last word, first paragraph, leave out "Librarian". 



ARTICLE VI. The Council 

 Middle of second line, change "eight" to nine. 



ARTICLE VIII. Meetings 

 Change paragraph "a" to read, (a) The Annual 

 Meeting of the Club shall be held on the first 

 Tuesday in December. 



ARTICLE X. Elections 

 Second paragraph, second last line, leave out 

 "Librarian". 



ARTICLE XVII. Duties of the Secretary 

 Third last line, change "The Ottawa Naturalist" 

 to such other name as shall hereafter be agreed 

 upon in Art. XX. 



ARTICLE XX. The Ottawa Naturalist 

 In first and third last line and heading of article 

 substitute for "Ottawa Naturalist" such other name 

 as may be agreed upon at the next Annual Meeting. 



These motions will be introduced and voted on 

 at the Annual Meeting, March 18, 1919. 



Members of the club are invited to suggest 

 names which they consider would be suitable for 

 the publication in place of "The Ottawa Naturalist." 

 The proposed change of name was intimated in a 

 previous issue. 



The January issue of The Ottawa Naturalist rvas mailed on March 10, 1919 



