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TREASURER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1899-1900. 



To the President and Members of the Ottawa Field Naturalists 

 Club. 



The Treasurer beg-s to ag-ain report that although the finances 

 of the Club are in a satisfactory condition, so far as the balance 

 is concerned, they are in a very unsatisfactory state with regard to 

 the payment of subscriptions by members at the time they are due. 

 By an expenditure of much time and labour, a large amount has 

 been collected for arrears ; but the payments on account of the 

 current year's subscriptions are not at all what they ought to be. 

 The Treasurer makes an earnest appeal to the members to pay in 

 their subscriptions at the beginning of the Club year instead of 

 waiting until (he end. The printers must be paid month by 

 month, and, were all fees paid when due, the Council could carry 

 out much good work which has to be left undone, owing to un- 

 certainty as to when funds will be available. Further, owing to 

 neglect on the part of members to pay their fees unsolicited, the 

 Club is put to much extra expense for postage, and the work is 

 much more than doubled. 



Another matter which the Treasurer considers it his duty to 

 again bring prominently before the members of the Club, is the 

 patronage of those firms who help the Club by advertising in The 

 Ottawa Naturallst. These are all first class houses who will 

 supply goods at least equal in quality to those to be obtained any- 

 where else, and it is only reasonable that they should expect to 

 receive an increase of business from the members of the Club, 

 whose interests they serve by advertising in the Club organ. 

 Your obedient servant, 



JAMES FLETCHER, 



Treasurer. 



Subscriptions are payable in advance, and are due on the 

 day of the annual meeting each vear. — J. F. 



