2o8 The Ottawa Naturalist. [March 



Ogiivy, Mr. Rowan and Dr. McGillivray, and in those days 

 activity was very active." Among- the expeditions participated in 

 by Col. White were a visit to the cave at Pelissier's, a visit to 

 East Templeton to inspect plumbago and a tramp through the 

 mica districts in the Gatineau hills. 



Mr. R. B. Whyte's subject was "Botanical conditions around 

 Ottawa twenty-five years ago." He said that there had been 

 o-reat changes in the collecting grounds during that period. 

 Houses were nou^ standing where good botanizing grounds used 

 to be. Twenty-five years ago there was a small bog in the woods 

 in the neighborhood of Beechwood cemetery in which he found 

 Cypripcdium specfabile, Sarracenia purpurea and Ledum Intifolium, 

 plants which have long disappeared from that vicinity. The 

 pitcher plant was also found at that time near the old race course 

 along the Bank street road. 



Dr. Fletcher spoke of "Ottawa as a Natural History locality 

 twenty-five years ago." He mentioned the old localities where 

 the rarer specimens used to be collected, and said that the rapid 

 o-rowth of the city had destroyed some of the best of these. He 

 stated that there was abundant opportunity for doing good work 

 still, and good localities within easy reach of the city. He referred 

 to the great aid the Geological Survey staff had been to the study 

 of Natural History in the Ottawa district. 



Lieut. -Col. Anderson's address related to " The workers in 

 Natural History at Ottawa twenty-five years ago." He said that 

 Dr. James Fletcher had most to do in suggesting and organizing 

 the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, and had been one of the most 

 energetic workers from the beginning. Others who did good 

 work in the early years were Mr. W. H. Harrington, Mr. R. B.- 

 Whyte, Dr. H. B. Small, Mr. Walter Billings, Hon. Frank 

 Latchford and Mr. W. L. Scott. 



Dr. H. B. Small, in speaking of " What the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club had accomplished," gave incidents of the early 

 years of the Club. He brought with him dried specimens of plants 

 collected twenty-five years ago, and said that each plant recalled 

 the place where it had been obtained and other incidents connected 

 with it, and took him back to the time when he was actively en- 

 o-a^ed in work for the Club He considered that the Club had 



