APR 10 1917 



1883. 1884. 



OTTAWA 



Field-Naturalists' Club. 



TRAN SACTIONS NO. 5. 



VOL. II. NO. I. 



Page. 



List of Officers, 1883-84 ■ 2 



List of Standing Committees 2 



List of Corresponding Members 2 



List of Members 3 



Annual Report of Council 5 



Treasurer's Statement 7 



Librarian's List of Donations and Exchanges 7 



Constitution 9 



Report of Delegate to Royal Society of Canada 12 



Inaugural Address of the President H. Beaumont Small 15 



Notes on the " Flora Ottawaensis." James Fletcher 29 



On the Sand Plains of the Upper Ottawa E. Odium 38 



List of Ottawa Fossils, with introduction Henry M. Ami 54 



Edible and Poisonous Fungi J. Macoun 62 



Li.st of Ottawa Coleoptera, with introduction AV. H. Harrington 07 



Suctoria J.B.Tyrrell 86 



On the Occurrence of Phosphate in Nature G. M. Dawson 91 



The Deer of the Ottawa Valley W. P. Lett 101 



Report of the Geological Branch 118 



Report of the Botanical Branch 122 



Note on Doassansia occulta W. G. Farlow 127 



Report of the Conchoiogical Branch 130 



Report of the Entomological Branch 134 



Report of the Ornithological Branch 141 



Report of the Zoological Branch 148 



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