PEOCEEDINGS FOE 1887. XXXI 



Apr. 6. Social Science : Primary Education, by Mr. James A. Estey. 

 May 4. Insect life during Winter, by John V. Ellis, M. P. 



The Cray Fish in New Brunswick, by W. F. Ganong. 



The Kames and Terraces of New Brunswick, by E. Chalmers. 

 June 1. Destruction of Birds, by Mr. M. Chamberlain. 



Oct. 5. Eeport on Field meeting ; also Pieliminaiy notice of a new genus of Silurian fishes, by 

 G. F. Matthew. 



Nov. 2. Marine Mollusca of New Brunswick, by W. P. Ganong. 

 Dec. 7. Giant Trilobite, found near St. John, by G. F. Matthew. 



The Botany of St. John City, by G. U. Hay. 



The Birds and Plants of Peticodiac, by John Brittain. 

 Jan. 11. The Mosses of New Brunswick, by John Moser. 



The Natural History portion of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, by W. F. Best. 



A number of valuable additions have been made to the Library of our Society during the year, 

 and several important contributions to the Museum have been received. 



Among the latter may bo mentioned a collection of the marine invertebrates of the Atlantic 

 coast, received from the National Museum at Washington. 



The geological collections have been reiii'ianged during the year, and valuable work has been 

 done by the ornithological committee in observations on the migration of birds. 



The collections of the Society are now open to the public on Satui-days, and also on two evenings 

 in the week. 



XIII.— Fi-om The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, through Mi-. E. B. Whyte. 



It is again my privilege to report to you that the Ottawa Field Naturalist' Club, which I have the 

 honor of representing, still continues to fulfill satisfactorily the objects of its organisation, viz., the 

 fostering of a love for nature, and the working up and taking permanent record of all focts connected 

 with the natui'al history of the Ottawa district; and this in such a way as to induce all, and partic- 

 ularly those now leceiving their education in our local institution, to direct some of their attention to 

 these most interesting and important pursuits. With the latter object in view, special efforts were 

 made by the Council of the Club to an-ange for the delivery during the past winter of free elementary 

 lectures in all branches of natural history, not only before the members of the Club, but also 

 whenever opportunity offered in the public schools. It was a great encouragement to find how 

 popular these lectures proved, and how the attendance steadily increased day by day as they became 

 better Icnown. 



Some important changes were made in the working of the Club at the beginning of the current 

 year. The most notable of these was the publication of a monthly magazine, instead, as heretofore, 

 o£ the yearly volume of Transactions. This magazine, the Ottawa Naturalist (copies of which 

 have been regularly sent to your Honourable Society as issued), contains the papers and reports of 

 the leaders in the different sections which were read at the soirees held during the preceding wintei-, 

 and also accounts of all the excursions and sub-excursions held during the month previous to its 

 issue, as well as notices of all matters of interest to the members for the coming month. 



The sub-excursions referred to above differ from the general monthly excursions of the whole 

 Club, in being under the direction of one or moi-e of the leaders in the sections, and are in reality 

 working parties or classes devoting their whole attention to their own specialty, under the guidance of 

 a teacher, whose duty it is to shew the best modes of collecting and studying, and who during the 

 present year will deliver a short lecture in the field upon the objects collected during the afternoon. 

 This plan, as far as we are able to judge from the present season, has been eminently successful. 



