APPENDIX F CLXXIX 



Ottawa. 



See full repoi't of Ottawa Centre under Xo. VII. 



Peterborough. 



" Planet Jupiter," by Dr. D. B. Marsh. 



" Echoes from the Observatory at Ottawa," by H. 0. Fisk. 



"An Hour with the Moon," by Herbert Collier. 



" Solar Eclipses and Ancient Astronomy," by E. P. Jennings. 



" The Medium of Vision/' by Dr. C. M. Stratton. 



" An Evening in the Skies," l)y Dr. Marsh. 



VII. — From The Ottawa Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 of Canada, through Dr. Otto Kloïz, President and Delegate. 



The following is a report of the proceedings of the Society for the 

 Fall and Spring terms 1908-1909 :— 



At the Annual General Meeting held on the 3rd December, 1908, 

 the following ofiBcers were elected for the ensuing year: 



Chairman — Otto Klotz, LL.D., F.R.A.S. 



Vice Chairman — J. S. Plaskett, B.A. 



Secretary — Carl Engler, B.A. 



Treasurer — R. M. Stewart, M.A. 



Council— Joseph Pope, C.M.G., F.P.A.S.C; W. J. Stewart, W. 

 Bell Dawson, F.R.S.C. 



The following is the programme of lectures for the Fall and Spring 

 terms, 1908-1909, with a brief S3''nopsis of each of the papers given. 



The aftelmoon, or technical lectures, were all given in the lecture 

 room of the Observatory, while the evening or popular lectures were 

 given either in the Normal School or Carnegie Library. 



Fall Term. 

 1908 



Oct. 9.— "The Scheme of Things," Pt. I. by Prof. A. T. De Lury. 

 Oct. 22.—" Some Remarks on the Doctrine of Probability," by Dr. W. 



F. King, C.M.G. 

 Nov. 6.—" The Scheme of Things," Pt. II. by Prof. A. T. De Lury. 

 Nov. 19. — " Spectrograph Camera Objectives," by J. S. Plaskett, B. A. 

 Nov. 19. — " Some Electrical Anomalies," by R. ]\[. Stewart, M.A. 

 Dec. 3. — Annual Meeting. 

 Dec. 17.—" Gravity," by Dr. Otto Klotz, F.R.A.S. / 



