LXIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The Ottawa Field-Naturalists Club. 
“Under the distinguished patronage of the Right Honourable the 
Earl of Minto, Governor-General of Canada.” 
Programme of Winter Soirées, 1899-1900. 
1899. 
Nov. 28.—Inaugural Address and Conversazione, Assembly Hall, Nor- 
mal School. 
Exhibition of specimens in the various departments of the 
Club’s work. 
Addresses by Dr. J. A. MacCabe, M.A., F.R.S.C., Principal of 
the Ottawa Normal School, and Professor Macoun, M.A., 
F.LS. 
Microscopical objects and lantern slide illustrations. 
Nature study in schools, followed by lantern slide illustrations 
of “ Minute structures in flowering plants,” by 8. B. Sin- 
clair, M.A., and A. D. Campbell, B.A. 
Dec. 12.—Meeting for the exhibition of specimens and conversation. 
“ Ottawa diptera,” by W. H. Harrington, F.R.S.C. 
“ Notes on rearing insects,” by Dr. James Fletcher, F.L.S. 
“ Some interesting moths taken at Ottawa,” by Arthur 
Gibson, B.A. | 
Report of the Botanical Branch of the O. F. N. C. 
1900. 
Jan. 9.—Meeting for the exhibition of specimens and conversation. 
“On the comparative anatomy of the ear,” by Prof. E. E. 
Prince, B.A., F.L.S., with lantern slide illustrations. 
“ Gannets and cormorants, with special reference to Canadian 
forms,’ by Andrew Halkett, Esq., of the Marine De- 
partment. 
“ Principal places of geological interest about Ottawa,” by H. 
M. Ami, M.A., F.G.S. 
Reports of the Geological, Ornithological and Zoological 
Branches of the O. F. N. C. 
Jan. 23.—“ Electric currents of high potential and high frequency, with 
Roentgen Ray experiments,” by Ormond Higman, Esq., 
of the Electrical Staff of the Canadian Government. 
Feb. 6.—Conversazione and Microscopical Soirée in the Assembly Hall 
of the Normal School. Microscopical objects will be ex- 
hibited both on the screen or under microscopes, and a 

