Annual Report of the Council, 



To the Members of the Ottaiva Field-Naturalists' Club: 



The Council entrusted by you a year ago with the management of 

 the Club, in submitting a report on the work of tlie year just closed, can, 

 with much satisfaction, congratulate you on the progress which the Club 

 continues to make in the objects for which it was organized. 



Seventeen meetings of the Council were held, at which there was 

 an avei'age attendance of six of its members. Even an average two- 

 thirds attendance of the members would be very satiafactory, but in 

 reality the Council for a great portion of the year consisted of seven 

 instead of nine members. Mr. Curtis only attended two meetings, and 

 removed during the summer to the North-West, while Mr. Latchford 

 only attended four meetings, and resigned his membership in the Club 

 in the early part of November. The Council, however, did not deem 

 it necessary to call a general meeting of the Club to fill the vacancies 

 thus created. 



One of the first acts of the Council was to appoint printing, excur- 

 sion and soiree committees, and leaders in the various branches to give 

 aid and information to members, and to keep I'ecords of the season's 

 work. From these leaders were received valuable reports which wsre 

 read at the soirees. 



As stated in the circular then issued by the Council, prizes were 

 ofi"ered in each branch for the best collection of specimens, and special 

 prizes were also offered by the President. Only one of these prizes has 

 been awarded, viz.: by the Botanical Branch to Mr. T. J. MacLaughlin 

 for his fine collection of plants, the pi-ize being " Gray's Manual of 

 Botany." In connection with the prizes of the previous year (awarded 

 after report of Council) it must be stated that the one given to Mr. Ami 



