Annual Report of the Council, 



To the Members of the Ottawa FieM- Naturalists Club : 



The Council has much pleasiu-e in reporting that the progress of 

 the Club duiing the past year has been A'ery encouraging. The mem- 

 bership has largely increased, being now 168, the number of new 

 members elected having been ,50. Two corresponding members have 

 also been elented, viz.: Mr. J. B. Smith, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a promi 

 nent entomologist, and Dr. C. Hart Meniani, the secretary of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union. 



The Club excursions were four in number. The first was held on 

 22nd May, and to it were invited the members of the Royal Society 

 of Canada, then in session in Ottawa, and delegates to that society, with 

 their families. Kingsmere was visited and tliei'e were present over 

 100 persons, of whom 36 were guests of the Club. The second excur- 

 sion was to Buckingham on 12th June, while the third was held on 

 24th July, when, through the kind liberality of Capt. Goulet, the Club 

 was enabled to visit the Chat Falls in the Steamer Chaudiere. As a 

 slight recognition of Capt. Goulet^'s generosity toward the Club, two 

 volumes on natural history have been purchased and bound for presenta- 

 tion to him. They are " La Terre et les Mers," by Figuier, and 

 Wood's '•' Natural Histoiy." The fourth excursion was to Casselman 

 on 21st Aug., when the members were kindly received by Mr. and 

 Mrs. Castleman, who have since removed to California. All these 

 excursions were well attended, an 1 were successful in every respect ; 

 the first one being the largest and most important yet held. 



Sub-excursions were also held on Saturday afternoons during the 

 season, and a number of interesting localities were thus visited. 



At the 'Dominion Exhibition held here in September the Club 

 was represented by collections in various branches, and the exhibit 

 attracted much attention. A silver medal and diploma were specially 

 awarded the Club for the exhibit as a whole, while the follovving mem- 

 bers n^ceived individual awards : — Dr. Small, a silver medal for collec- 

 tion of reptiles J Mr. Henry M. Ami, first prize and diploma for 



geological specimens ; Mr. H. P. Brumell, several prizes for minerals ; 



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