LXXXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Officers. 



President — Hon. J. \. Ellis. 

 Vice-Presidents— G. F. Matthew, G. U. Hay. 

 Trea^irer — A. Gordon Leavitt. 

 Secretary — ^W. L. McDiarmid. 

 Librarian — ^W. L. Ellis, M.D. 



Curators— S. W. Kain, Wm. Mcintosh, J. ^^'. Banks. 

 Additional Members of Council— H. iG. Addy, :M.D., J. Hoy 

 (*anipbell, James A. Estey. 



Ladies' Association Brancli. 



President — Mrs. G. F. Matthew. 



Vice-Presidents— :\Irs. G. IT. Hay, Mrs. H. G. Addy. 



Secretary-Treasurer — ]Miss Edith J\IcBeath. 



IV. — From The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, through 

 Mr. TT. J. Wilson. 



Havino- been selected to represent the Ottawa Field-ITaturalists' 

 Club at this me?ting of the Eoyal Society, I have much pleasure in pre- 

 senting the following summary of the work done during the year ending 

 March 20th, 1^06. 



The Club's year begins in March so that the nenv officers have an 

 opportunity of arranging the field excursions which are the chief feature 

 in our work. The sub-excursions were beigun early in April and con- 

 tinued every fine Saturday afternoon through May and into June, and 

 were again resumed in October. The attendance at these excursions 

 sometimes reached one hundred. Tliree general excursions were held as 

 follows: May 27, to Chelsea^; June 10, to Carp; September 23, to 

 Chelsea. The excursion to Chelsea on ]\Iay 27 was perhaps the most 

 largely attended excursion in the history of the club, due to the fact that 

 both the Royal Society and the Carleton County Teachers' Association 

 met in Ottawa during that week. Such distinguished visitors as Dr. 

 C. F. Hodge, of Clark University, Dr. A. H. MacKay, Superintendent 

 of Education for N'ova Scotia, and Dr. G. U. Hay, editor of the Educa- 

 tional Eeview, were present and delivered able addresses. 



The council favours the continuance of outdoor work throughout 

 the year, and to that end had plaimed two snowshoe tramps, which, how- 

 ever, were cancelled for lack of snow. 



A summer school for teachers was held in Ottawa last July. Several 

 members of the club delivered lectures in the nature studv course and 



