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natui'al sciences. Competition was oi>en to every member of the Club, 

 and the collections were to be made personally in this locality during 

 the season, and to be siibmitted, properly arranged and named, for 

 examination by 31st December, 1881. Special prizes were also offered 

 by the President to members making the lai-gest additions to the lists, 

 of plants and shells already published in the Transactions of the Club. 

 Of the latter, that for additions to the lists of plants was awarded to Mr. 

 H. M. Ami, and that for additions to the lists of shells to Mr. 

 Latchford. The Club prize for the best botanical collection was 

 awarded to Mr. T. Melville Hardie. A fine collection of shells was 

 exhibited by Mr. F. Latchford, for which, however, no prize was 

 given, as he had secured the President's prize for additions to lists of 

 shells, and the Committee did not wish to establish the pi*ecedent of 

 allowing a member to obtain more than one prize for the same collec- 

 tion. No collections were i-eceived in the other branches. 



At the beginning of the year there were upon the rolls the names 

 of 102 members, and 30 new members were elected during the year. 

 Several have, however, left the city, and a few have forfeited their 

 membership through non-payment of arrears, so that the number now 

 stands at 115. The Club is thus stronger in members, and especially 

 in active workers, than at any previous time. The list of corresponding 

 members remains unchanged. Mr. A. J. Hill has continued to send 

 valuable collections of plants and insects from Bdtish Columbia. 



Four very pleasant and well attended excursions were held during 

 the summer. The first was to Chelsea on the 26th of May, the halting 

 place being Gilmour's Grove, upon the bank of the Gatineau. The 

 second was on the 8th June to Montebello, forty miles below Ottawa, on 

 the Quebec shore of the river, where the excursion joined one from the 

 Natural History Society and proceeded to the beautiful grounds of the 

 Hon. J. L. Papineau. Three prizes for botanical collections to be made 

 during the day weie oflfered by this Club to the Montreal Society for 

 competition among the members of both. These were taken by Mr. H. 

 M. Ami, of Ottawa ; Mr. Thomas Barron, of Lachute, and Miss 

 Graham, of JSIontreal. Before separating, short addresses were given 

 by Dr. Dawson, President of the Natural History Society of Montreal^ 



