LXXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The club has a scheme of popular scientific instruction before it, 

 and, if carried out, opportunity will be ottered in the city of Ottawa 

 and vicinity for beginners to commence natural history studies under the 

 direction of the club. 



The finances of the club are in a satisfactory condition. 



The Ottawa Naturalist. 



The publication of the " Ottawa Naturalist," the monthly periodical 

 of the club, has been carried on under the editorship of Dr. Ami, 

 assisted by a staff of colleagues, and its pages have contained many 

 original articles on various branches of science, the aim being to sustain 

 a thoroughly scientific tone and method, with a suflSciently popular 

 style of exposition to arouse the interest of beginners in science studies. 

 Many improvements are contemplated during the coming ^^ear. The 

 volume for 1896-97 contains 236 pages of reading matter, amongst which 

 we note a very interesting series of reviews on current geological and 

 biological literature of great value to Canadians, besides the following 

 papers or contributions : 



In Zoologii. 



"Electrical Fishes," by Prof. E. E. Prince, B.A., F.L.S., Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries for Canada ; " Eemarkable Points in the Life- 

 history of Phyllopods," by the same author ; " How Whales Breathe," 

 by the same author; ''The Living Chimrora and Its Egg," by Prof. 

 Prince also ; " A Naturalist's Journey Westward," by Andrew Halkett, 

 Esq. ; " The Evolution and Development of Animal Intelligence, by 

 Prof. T. Wesle}^ Mills, F.E.S.C. ; Stephanoceros, a Beautiful Eotifer at 

 Ottawa," by W. S. Odell, Esq. ; " Ottawa Hydrachnida," etc., etc. 



In Geology. 



" Petrographical Notes on Some Archican Eocks from Chelsea, Que.," 

 by Principal J. A. Dresser, B.A. (Eichmond, Quo.) ; " Pleistocene Fossils 

 found at Chelsea, Que.," by Dr. H. M. Ami ; " The Geology of the Ottawa 

 & Parry Sound Eailway," by Dr. E. W. Ells, M.A., F.E.S.C; The Genesis 

 of Lake Agassiz," by J. B. Tj-rrell, B.A., F.G.S. ; " Note on Cardinia 

 subangulata, Dawson, and Area punctifer, Dn." by Dr.H. M. Ami ; " New 

 Species of Graptolites from Canada," by the same author. 



In Entomology. 



" Ottawa Spiders," by W. H. Harrington, F.E.S.C. ; " Ottawa 

 Spiders and Mites," by the same author in another article ; " Fauna 

 Ottawaënsis — llymenoptera Parasitica-Proctotrypida;," by W. H. 

 Harrington ; " Annotated List of Noctuids taken at Olds, N.W.T.," by 



