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species, discovered in Osgoode Township two forms of Botrychium 
ternatum not before collected here, viz: B. ternatum dissectum and B. 
ternatum obliquum. 
A full report-of the entomological branch has been published in 
the Ottawa Naturalist. In this report the leaders drew special atten- 
tion to original work carried on in the critical study of insects. 
Archæology.—One of the leaders in this branch, Mr. Sowter, dis- 
covered a beach workshop on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river just 
below the Little Chaudiere Rapids. The workshop extends along the 
whole west shore of Squaw Bay from the southerly end of Mountain 
Street in Tetreauville, a distance of about 800 feet. The shore at fre- 
quent intervals is strewn with the usual flint chippings. 
As can be seen from the report of the Treasurer, Dr. Fletcher, the 
finances of the club are in a flourishing condition. The dollar sub- 
scription fee for membership to the club, if paid promptly by the mem- 
bers, together with the grant by the Ontario Government enables the 
club to publish its Transactions in a manner unprecedented in our his- 
tory and sending them out to a large exchange list. The library of 
the club is growing apace. The bound volumes of our library are placed 
on the shelves of the Provincial Normal School at the disposal of the 
teachers-in-training. 
Lectures, Soirées, Etc. 
The course of lectures and soirées given was very largely at- 
tended last winter. The inaugural address gave an historical sketch of 
the work of the club during the past twenty-one years and contained a 
tribute to the memory of the late Elkanah Billings, paleontologist to 
the Geological Survey of Canada for twenty years, an old citizen of 
Ottawa, to which was added a brief biographical notice of the recently 
departed and much regretted prince of science in Canada, the first 
President of the Royal Society of Canada, Sir J. Wm. Dawson, who did 
so much to advance the interest of education and science in the Do- 
minion of Canada and especially in Montreal. 
During the winter the usual evening meetings were held and many 
valuable lectures were given and papers read of which the following 
was the programme given, the only change in the original programme 
being that on March 6th instead of Mr. T. W. E. Sowter’s paper, Mr. 
D. B. Dowling kindly gave an instructive and illustrated address on 
Lake Winnipeg, and Mr. W. 8S. Odell read a paper entitled “Note on a 
Salamander.” 
