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becomingf the most rapid medium of publication in Canada for 

 notes on the Natural History of our various Provinces. 



There is much to be done yet in the way of publication, and 

 it is to be noted that considerable time and labour would be spared 

 the editor, if the associate editors appointed by the Council and 

 responsible for several most important departments of research in 

 Canadian science would co-operate with him and form a committee 

 of supply which would not only prove most interesting- but make 

 The Naturalist less one-sided perhaps — a phase which at different 

 times it may appear to assume owing to circumstances over which 

 none but the Associated Editors can have control. 



The Ross Prize. 



Nearly a year ago, during his visit to Ottawa, the Hon. G. 

 W. Ross, then Minister of Education for Ontario, now the 

 Premier of that Province, met a number of the officers of our Club 

 and, noticing'the educational work which we were trying to do in 

 our midst, proposed of his own accord to grant a prize or medal 

 for the student of the Normal School doing the best work in con- 

 nection with our Club. 



Competition was keen, and as a result the following com- 

 munication was prepared by the committee of judges. 



Mr. J. H. Putman, Ottawa, June 12th, 1900. 



Science Master, etc., 



Ottawa Normal School. 



On behalf of the Judges appointed by the Council of 

 the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club to examine the collections 

 of plants sent in for competition, I have the honour and pleasure 

 to report that after a very careful and critical examination of said 

 collections we have come to the conclusion that owing to the 

 excellence of the collections and large number of specimens sent 

 in and correct identifications of species, the first prize, presented 

 by the Hon. Dr. Ross (Premier of Ontario) falls to Miss Elma 

 Cannon, and the second prize, presented by the President of the 

 Club (proxime accessit) to Miss Mary E. Robson. 



The collections of ATessrs. J. A. Graham, H. F. Breckenridge 

 and Elmer Bolton, comprising the exact number of twenty-five 



