THE OTTAWA NATURALIST 



Vol. XXVII. APRIL, 1913 No. 1 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OTTAWA FIELD- 

 NATURALISTS' CLUB, 1912-13. 



During the past year a good deal of quiet, steady work has 

 been done by the officers and members of the Club. The Council 

 has held six meetings during the year. The following is a brief 

 synopsis of its work. At the first the various committees were 

 appointed, and arrangements were made for an extra lecture by 

 Mr. C. Leden on "Our Neighbours of the North." At the second 

 the spring outings were arranged for, a delegate was appointed 

 to attend the meetings of the Royal Society in May, and a com- 

 mittee of four was appointed to consider the advisability of 

 publishing the Constitution. This, as you have seen, was done in 

 the October number of The Ottawa Naturalist. In September 

 a meeting was held to arrange for some fall excursions. At this 

 meeting twelve new members were elected. At the next meeting 

 the programme of winter lectures, as proposed by the inde- 

 fatigable chairman of the Lectures Committee, was received and 

 ordered to be printed. And, at the last meeting the reports of 

 several committees and branches were received, and a vast 

 amount of routine work dealt with, including some valuable 

 suggestions for the next Council, and the election of seven more 

 members. 



Membership. 



In all 21 new members have been elected, 12 have resigned, 

 leaving a total of 330 members now on the books. One of the 

 corresponding members, the Rev. G. W. Tavlor, has died, as 

 reported in the September issue of The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Publications Committee. 



As no matters of a sufficiently important nature to warrant 

 the calling together of the Committee arose during the past year 

 no special meetings were held. The chief work of the Committee, 

 namely, the publication of The Ottawa Naturalist, has 

 proceeded very satisfactorily, thanks to the careful work of our 

 Editor, Mr. Arthur Gibson, to whom we wish to express our 

 indebtedness and appreciation of the regular manner in which 

 our journal has appeared. It has contained a number of interest- 

 ing and important papers which have not been confined to our 

 local fauna and flora. 



