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The Ottawa Naturalist has been promptly published by our 

 able and zealous editor, Mr. W. H. Harrington, on whom the onus of 

 the editorial work has practically entirely fallen. 



One of the first duties of your Council after election was to appoint 

 Mr. Harrington as editor, and with this appointment the position of 

 sub-editor was assigned to each of the following gentlemen engaged in 

 various branches of work in connection with the Club, viz : 

 i. Geology Dr. H. M. Ami. 



2. Mineralogy Mr. W. F. Ferrier. 



3. Botany Mr. William Scott. 



4. Entomology Mr. James Fletcher. 



5. Conchology Mr. F. R. Latchford. 



6. Ornithology Mr. A. G. Kingston- 



7. Zoology Mr. F. T. Shutt. 



As may be observed in reading the Naturalist for the past year, 

 various notes bearing on these different departments of the Club's work 

 above mentioned have appeared from time to time. It is earnestly 

 desired, and this Council recommends, that this branch of the Club's 

 work be carried on efficiently in the future, inasmuch as this method 

 not only furnishes the editor with material for the monthly periodical, 

 but gives also to the members current and interesting; notes in 

 these different topics. 



Early last year a number of members of the Council and Club 

 received blank forms prepared by a Committee of the Royal 

 Society of Canada on which to record phenological observations. 

 These have been filled and handed back to the Committee of the 

 Royal Society whence they came. 



The Council and the Club generally, have been under great obliga- 

 tion to one of their number (during the past year) in the person of Miss A. 

 M. Living for the gratuitous designing and drawing of the beautiful cards 

 of announcement of the different lectures and soirees given under the 

 auspices of our Club. 



Your Council has just recently had prepared a memorandum to 

 be presented by the Hon. E. H. Bronson before the Ontario Legisla- 

 ture, stating the claims of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club for aid 

 and subsidy towards publishing the Ottawa Naturalist and for general 

 educational work carried on. 



