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rough form a catalogue, which I regret exceedingly lack of time has 

 compelled me to leave in that form, but which, with the permission of 

 my successor, I shall revise and copy before handing it over to him. 

 In making the catalogue I found that almost all the sets of back num- 

 bers ot exchanges were incomplete, but on receiving authority for that 

 purpose from the Council,. I exchanged missing back numbers with such 

 of our exchanges as were willing to do so, and they were nearly all so 

 willing. The result is that, at a slight extra expenditure for postage, 

 the sets are now in most cases complete, as far as the missing numbers 

 can be had in print. Four exchanges have been added to our list during 

 the year, viz. : — The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm; 

 The American Geologist, Minneapolis, Minn. ; The Wisconsin Academg 

 of Science, Madison, Wis. , and The Nautilus, Philadelphia, Pa. It is 

 a matter for congratulation that we have been able to appropriate the 

 sum of $8.40 for binding. With this I have have had bound twelve 

 volumes of convenient size, containing in all eighteen volumes of 

 periodicals, as follows : — The Auk, 6 Vols. ; Bulletin of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, 8 Vols., bound in 3 ; Proceedings of the Boston Societg 

 of Natural History, 1 Vol. j Transactions of the 0. F. N C, 1 Vol. ; 

 The Ottawa Naturalist, 2 Vols, bound in 1. The tact that several of 

 these have already been borrowed by members, indicates the desirability 

 of pushing on the work of binding as fast as our resources will from 

 time to time permit. It is also desirable that when we move to other 

 quarters, as I believe we soon must, larger and more suitable accommo- 

 dation should be provided for our books, many of which are extremely 

 valuable. A list of the publications received as donations and exchanges 

 during the year appears in the number of the Naturalist issued today. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Wm. A. I). Lees, Librarian. 

 Ottawa, March 14th, 1890. 



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WINTER SOIREES. 



The Soiree Committee requests such members of the Club as are 

 willing to read papers during the coming winter to send in to the 

 Secretary, as soon as possible, the titles, and at the same time to indicate 

 approximately the date when they prefer to present them. 



