LXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



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During the year special efforts have been put forth towards enlist- 

 ing the teachers and students of the various educational institutions 

 in the work of the club. This has been done by means of numerous 

 field excursions, lectures and demonstrations, and the addition of a 

 Nature Study Department to the " Ottawa Naturalist." The result 

 has been to diffuse the work into new channels. A number of the 

 teachers of the city have taken their classes afield for an afternoon's 

 study of the birds, flowers, trees, rocks, soil, etc., of some locality. 



Membership. 



Twenty-on,e ordinary members and one honorary member have 

 been added to the club during the year. 



The total membership is now 266, composed of 258 ordinary mem- 

 bers and eight corresponding. The aim of the club is to increase the 

 number of working members, and every effort is made to induce the 

 public to attend the soirées and excursions, so as to actually see the 

 interesting nature of the work. 



Winter Soirées. 



Fortnightly meetings were held throughout the winter, and w^ere 

 largely attended both by members and the general public. The de- 

 monstration meeting proved to be so popular that it is proposed to 

 conduct a series of such during the next winter, with the object of 

 preparing the newer members for intelligent field work. 



Following is the programme of the past year : — 



1903. 

 Dec. 15. — Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Club. 



Address of Welcome, by Principal J. F. White, of the Normal 

 School. 



The President's Address. 



'' The Study of Natural Historv' at Ottawa before the For- 

 mation of the Club." Lieut.-Col. W. ^Vhite, C.M.G. 



"Botanical Conditions Round Ottawa twenty-five years ago." 

 R. B. Whyte. 



" Ottawa as a Natural Histoi7 Locality twenty-five years 

 ago." Dr. James Fletcher. 



" The Workers in Natural History at Ottawa twenty -five 

 years ago." Lieut.-Col. W. P. Anderson. 



" What the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club has accom- 

 plished." Dr. 11. B. Small. 



