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In addition to our regular course of Soirées, the Council, as a token of © 
the good feeling which existed between the Ottawa Literary 
and Scientific Society and the Club, offered to take charge 
of one of the Convyersaziones in -the Society’s winter course 
of meetings. Their offer was accepted, and the entertainment toolz 
place on January 9th. The programme consisted of an address by the 
Chairman, Mr. LeSueur ; a series of chemical experiments illustrative 
of the phenomena of combustion by Mr. Henry Watters ; an essay On 
coal by Mr. W. H. Harrington ; recitations by Mr. J. Martin and Mr. 
W. Campbell, and an exhibition of natural history specimens in the 
Museum by members of the Club. 
The membership of the Club has steadily increased, and now 
consists of ninety ordinary and two corresponding members—Prof. J. 
Macoun, of Belleville, and W. Saunders, Esq., of London, President of 
the Entomological Society of Oatario—who were elected by the Council 
according to Rule 7. 
The following donations have been received during the year: 5 
copies of the “ Canadian Entomologist,” No. 5 containing a notice of the 
organization of the Club, from the editor ; Reports for three years of the 
Manchester Field-Naturalists’ Club and of the Scientific Students’ 
Association, of the same place, from Mr. W. R. Billings ; 2 volumes 
of the proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science 
trom Dr. Honeyman, per Mr. W. P. Anderson ; report of the Fruit- 
Growers’ Association for 1879, containing the report of the Entomological 
Society of Ontario for the same year, from Mr. J. Fletcher. We have also 
received from the Curator of the Literary and Scientific Society a long 
list of donations made by the members of the Club to the Museum of that 
Society during the year. 
The Council have on several occasions discussed the feasibility of 
printing the papers read before the Club during the winter, with an 
account of the excursions and the annual report as the ,transactions of 
the Club for 1879-80. The following extract from the minutes of last 
Council meeting expresses the view of the Council in the matter, 
which they commend to the favorable consideration of their successors. 
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