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ultimately appear in the Annual Report of the Society, and 

 should be in the hands of all interested in either agriculture or 

 entomology. 



The meetings were presided over by the President, Dr. C. 

 Gordon Hewitt, until the last afternoon, when setting a new and 

 appropriate precedent he vacated the chair in favour of the 

 newly elected president, Mr. A. F. Winn. The other officers 

 elected were: Vice-President, Prof. L. Caesar, Guelph; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, Mr. A. W. Baker, Agrictdtural College, Guelph; Cur- 

 ator, Mr. G. J. Spencer, O. A. College, Guelph; Librarian, Rev. 

 Prof. C. J. S. Bethune, Guelph. Directors': Division No. 1, Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson, Ottawa; No. 2, Mr. C. E. Grant, Orillia; No. 3, 

 Dr. A. Cosens, Toronto; No. 4, Mr. C. W. Nash, East Toronto; 

 No. 5, Mr. F. J. A. Morris, Peterboro; No. 6, Mr. J. W. Noble, 

 London, and No. 7, Mr. W. A. Ross, Vineland Station. 



On Friday evening, November 5th, a smoker was held in 

 honour of the Society, the hosts being the entomological sec- 

 tion of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, the president, Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson, welcoming the members in a short speech. The 

 proceedings that followed w^ere presided over by Dr. Hewitt, and 

 Avere greatly enjoyed. They ended, as was to be expected, in 

 the height of good fellowship. 



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THE CANADIAN FISHERIES MUSEUM. 



Members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club will be in- 

 terested to learn that the above-mentioned museum has been 

 recently entirely remodelled by Mr. Andrew Halkett, the well 

 known naturalist of the Dominion Fisheries. The object of this 

 museum is to display in an educational manner all forms of 

 aquatic life, and chiefly to illustrate the value of our vast fishery 

 resources. The fishes proper, which for the most part are mounted 

 specimens of the fishes themselves, are beautifully arranged and 

 classified, according to Mr. Halkett's recently published "Check- 

 List of the Fishes of the Dominion of Canada and Newfound- 

 land," in cases arotmd the walls on the ground floor of the 

 museum. In view of much additional material, most of which 

 has been recently acquired and mounted, the large room up 

 stairs, formerly used as an Art Gallery, will in the near future 

 be devoted for the display of this material, and will, therefore, 

 soon be open to the general public. A conspicuous object 

 which will be on view in this room will be a mounted skeleton 

 of a Fin-back Whale, 51>2 feet long, from the Seven Islands 

 Whaling Station, Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



