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Tlie additions to the Club Library during the year were 

 numerous and valuable, and were received largely in exchange 

 for our Transactions. Owing to the absence from the city dui'ing 

 lengthened periods, of different merribers of the Publishing Committee 

 and to other unforeseen and unavoidable delays, the issue of Transac- 

 tions No. 6, (Vol. IT, No. 2,) has, the Council regrets to state, only just 

 been made. The number contains 132 pages of letter-press, and two 

 plates illustrating the new spieces of Ciinoids described by Mr. W. R. 

 Billings. A new feature will be found in a carefully compiled meteo- 

 rological table, by Mr. A. McGill. The Transactions contain many 

 valuable papeis and should be placed by you in the hands of such of 

 your friends as may be interested in science, or whom you would de- 

 sire to become so. The cost of publishing them bet»rs heavily upon the 

 very limited resources of the Club, and it is desirable that a certain 

 portion of it should be defrayed by the sale of some of the copies re- 

 maining after one has been allotted to each member. The winter course 

 consisted of seven Soirees, of which one was a Microscoi>ical evening 

 very jdeasantly and instructively spent in listening to short addresses 

 on various subjects; and in examining slides illustrative of them. By 

 invitation of our Vice-President, Principal Woods, of the Ladies' Col- 

 lege, this Microscopical Soiree was held in the commodious assembly 

 rooms of that institution. At the other Soirees valuable papers and 

 leports were read as in former years. 



Commencing on 11th January, Afternoon Lectures or cla.sses were 

 given each Monday, the last one having been delivered yesterday, so 

 that the work of the Club has been continued by the Council to the 

 latest possible moment. These classes were ten in number, and the 

 attendance at them was decidedly larger than at those of previous years. 

 The lectures were as follows: — Entomology: three by the President 

 and one by Mr. Fletcher. Mineralogy: one by Kev, Prof. Marsan 

 (held in Ottawa College). Ornithology : one by Mr. W. L. Scott. 

 Botany: two by Prof. Macoun and two by Mr. R. B. Whyte. By 

 request of Princijtal McCabe, who was desirous of obtaining for the 

 large ntimber of students under his charge, the advantages of the 

 lectures on Botany, the four lectures on that science were held in the 

 Nornial School, and were listened to with much interest by the 



