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sources. In accordance with this advice, a committee was formed, a 

 circular prepared to send to residents, former residents and others in- 

 terested. Five hundred circulars have been sent out, and almost as 

 many letters written, and as a result $1,000 have been subscribed. An 

 appeal was then made to the Provincial Government, and $500 was 

 granted. We have niot yet decided whether to try to obtain enough 

 for a separate building or use this money in fitting up the Town Hall 

 for the purpose. Our room is now crowded with articles of historic 

 interest, and many more have been promised should a larger and safer 

 room be provided. We feel encouraged to continue our work, and 

 are glad to know tliat more interest is being taken in the history of 

 our country, a history second to none in interest. It is now a saying 

 of the past, proved absolutely untrue, that " Canada has no history." 



Officers : 



Patron.— Wm. Kirby, F.R.S.C. 

 President. — Miss Camoclian. 

 Vice-President. — Henry Paffard. 

 Secretary. — Alfred Ball. 

 Assistan't-Secretary. — John Eckersley. 

 Treasurer. — Mrs. S. D. Manning. 

 Curator and Editor. — Miss Carnochan. 



Hon. Vice-Presidents.— Mrs. Roe, Mrs. H. Clement, C. F. Ball. 

 Committee.— Eev. J. C. Garrett, Mrs. T. F. Best, W. J. McClelland, 

 P. E. Denison, W. Miller. 



VI. — From Tlie Ottawa Field-Naturalists^ Club, tlirough 

 Dr. James Fletcher. 



The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club has now completed its twenty- 

 fifth year. The completion of a quarter of a century of active, organ- 

 ized work was fittingly celebrated by the members of the club. The 

 first of the winter soirées was addressed by speakers who were all, mem- 

 bers of the first Council, and each told briefly of some of the many 

 changes of the past twenty-five years, and the part the club has taken 

 in leading and directing scientific thought during that time. That 

 the work of the club is a permanent one, and that it possesses more 

 than ordinary^ interest, is shown by the fact that of the members of 

 the first Council now resident in Ottawa all are still actively connected 

 with the club. 



