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 EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The President. — We are much pleased to welcome safely back 

 again Dr. George M. Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., &c., our President, who 

 has just returned from England where he has been engaged for five 

 months in connection with the Behring -^ea arbitration. We congratulate 

 Dr. Dawson upon the important work which has been entrusted to him by 

 the Imperial authorities, and also on the latest honour which it pleased 

 Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen to bestow upon him last May 

 in recognition of his many services to science. This last distinction 

 was Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. (CM.G.) 



Dr. Adams. — Mr. Frank D. Adams, M. A[)p. Sc, and late of the 

 Geological Survey Staff at Ottawa, spent the summer in Germany where 

 the University of Heidelberg conferred upon him the well-earned title 

 of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.). 



Science-teaching at Ottawa. — At the last general excursion of 

 the Club to La Peche, there were no less than 80 students from the 

 Normal School. This speaks well indeed for the Science Master at 

 th's institution, and shows plainly that Mr. William Scoit is not merely 

 a teacher from text books, but leads his students out into the fields, 

 where alone can be acquired a practical acquaintance with the objects 

 which they have to study. No greater compliment than this, we think, 

 could have been paid Mr. Scott by his pupils, and we feel sure that he 

 must have been much encouraged by this practical and well-merited 

 expression of approval of his method of teaching. We hope that at 

 some future time the Science Master of the Collegiate Institute may 

 also see the benefit of availing himseli of the advantages offered at the 

 Club meetings of furthering the important work with which he is 

 entrusted. 



Authors' Extras. — At a recent meeting of the Council of the 

 Club it was decided to give to any member who contributed an article 

 of more than two pages in length, ten copies of the number of the 

 Ottawa Naturalist which contains his article, upon his making 

 application to the Editor or the Librarian at the time of publication. 



