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During the year there were two general meetings of the Club, the 
one just mentioned, and another to consider the resignation of Prof. 
Riddell as second Vice-President. The Council met twenty times 
during the year for the transaction of business, at irregular intervals, as 
ozeasion required. When it is stated that the average attendance at 
tLes? meetings was nearly seven ont of nine councillors, you will see 
that the Council have not neglected the duties entrusted to their care. 
The principal business that occupied their attention during the 
summer, was in connection with the excursions, of which there were 
five. It is not within the limits of this report to give a detailed account 
of these excursions, nor is it necessary, as the first Vice-President, in his 
inaugural address to the winter course of evening meetings, so well and 
fully described all the points of interest connected with them. It will 
suffice here merely to mention the localities visited, the dates on which 
the excursions were held, and the number that attended. The first was 
to Kingsmere, in the Chelsea Mountains, on May 22nd, attended by 
42 members and friends. The second was a joint excursion with the 
Montreal Natural History Society to Calumet, on June 12th, 28 persans 
leaving Ottawa. No.3 was to Dominion Springs and the Mer Bleu, on 
July 19th, at which there were present 28. No. 4 was a Saturday 
afternoon excursion to Britannia, the least attractive of the season, as it 
only brought out 25, including visitors. The fifth and last was to 
Meech’s Lake, four miles beyond Chelsea, on October 9th, at which 
there were present 29, including non-members. 
The Council feel compelled to express their regret that, although 
these excursions were to the most interesting places in the neighborhood, 
and the price of tickets put so low, that three of them did not pay 
expenses, so few of the members thought them worth attending. It 
does not say much for the interest the members take in the Club’s work, 
that, with a membership of over eighty the average attendance at the 
excursions should be only thirty, fully one-third of whom were visitors ; 
and they hope that during the coming season the excursions will be 
better supported by the members of the Club. 
Besides the regular Club excursions mentioned above, some seven- 
teen members were enabled, through the kindness of Dr. Wicksteed, to 
