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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1891-1892. 



To the Members of the Ottcuva Field-Naturalists'' Club : 



Ladies and Geni'lemen, — In presenting the customary annual 

 report your Council has pleasure in stating that the progress of the 

 work during the fourteenth year (which by the unscientific and 

 superstitious might be considered an unlucky period) has been 

 satisfactory, and that the present condition of the Club is very 

 encouraging. 



The membership continues in the vicinity of three hundred, 

 which may be considered a verv large membership for a purely 

 scientific society 



Unforeseen difficulties prevented the Excursion Committee from 

 completing the arrangements for some of the proposed excursions, so 

 that these popular outmgs were not so numerous as in former years. 

 Two very successful ones were, however, held; the first to King's 

 Mountain on 30th May, and the second to Montebello on 26th June, 

 both being w^ell attended and profitable. 



Sub-excursions, or small outing parties, visited many of the 

 neighbouring localities, and not a few more distant places. Of these 

 may be mentioned Wakefield, High Falls, Cassleman, Moose Creek, 

 Chats Falls, Buckingham, Mer Bleue, Aylmer, Kettle Island, Hog's 

 Back, Templeton, Donaldson's Lake, etc. By the Botanical Report 

 it will be observed that some of these localities yielded new plants; in 

 entomology and ornithology many good species were also taken and 

 observed, while the geologists discovered very interesting exposures of 

 different formations. 



The winter course of meetings consisted of six soirees ; the 

 Council having decided to omit for one year the former elementary, or 

 afternoon lectures. The soirees were held on Thursdays in the lecture 

 room of the Normal School, and the following papers and reports were 

 read : — ■ 

 1891. 



.Dec 17. — The Work of the Geological Survey (Pre- 

 sident's Address) Dr. Ells. 



