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THE OTTAWA NATURALIST. 



Vol. XIV. OTTAWA, APRIL and MAY, 1900. No. 12 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THP: OTTAWA FIELD 

 NATURALISTS' CLUB, 1899-1900. 



The Council of the O. F. N. Club beg leave to submit the 

 following report for the year now ending. Forty members have 

 been elected during the year, and thirty have resigned, or had 

 their names struck from the list on account of non-payment of 

 dues. The total number now enrolled is about 235. Fourteen 

 council meetings have been held. 



The President, Dr. Ami, represented the club at the meetmg 

 of the Royal Society of Canada, held in this cit} in May last. 



The following elemental y lectures were arranged tor at the 

 first meeting of Council, and were held on the respective dates : 



April loth, Geology, by Dr. H. M. Ami. 



" 17th, Ornithology, by Mr. A. G. Kingston. 



" 24tli, Entomology, by Dr. James Fletcher. 

 May 1st, Conchology, by Hon. F. R. Latcliford. 



" 8th, Botany, by Mr. R. B. Whyte. 



" 15th, Zoology, by Mr. W. S. Odell and Prof. J. Macoun. 



" 22nd, Planting and Care of Forest Trees, by Sir Henry Joli de Lotbini^re. 



Dr. MacCabe kindly placed the Assembly Hall of the Normal 

 School at the disposal of the Club for these lectures, and the 

 attendance was most encouraging to all concerned, a large 

 number of the ladies and gentlemen attending the Normal and 

 other city schools being present at every lecture, of which they 

 took copious notes. 



As usual the sub-excursions were an important feature of the 

 year's work, though in the first held the lateness of the spring 

 made it necessary to confine the observations largely to a study 

 of the rocks, and to the collection of fossils. All of these excur- 



