APR 10 1917 



1885. 1886. 



OTTAWA 



Field-Naturalists' Club 



TRANSACTIONS NO. 7. 



VOL.11. NO. III. 



Pagb. 



List of Officers, 1885-86 286 



List of Standing Committees , 286 



List of Corresponding Members 286 



List of Members 287 



Annual Report of Council 289 



Treasurer's Statement 291 



Report of Delegate to Royal Society of Canada 292 



Inaugural Address of the President 294 



The Black Bear Mr. W. P. Lett 306 



Water Crystallization effected by Magnetism Mr. E. Odium 315 



Microscopical Soiree • 315 



A New Departure in the Study of Minerals Rev. C. F. Marsan 317 



Ottawa Dragon-flie.s Mr. T. J. MacLaughlin b29 



Report of the (ieological Branch 342 



Report of the Conchological Branch 350 



Report of the Entomological Branch 352 



Report of the C)rnithological Branch 355 



Report of the Botanical Branch 362 



List of Mosses collected in the neighborhood of Ottawa Prof J. Macoun 364 



Abstract of Meteorological Statistics 373 



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