44 The Ottawa Naturalist. [May 



ANNUAL MEETING : OTTAWA LITERARY AND 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



The Annual Meeting was held in the Library of the above 

 Society on Friday evening, April 30th. The reports of the 

 Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, and President were presented 

 and adopted. The finances of the Society were shown to be in 

 a good condition, and the membership somewhat increased, 

 now numbering about 350. 



The Library and Reading Room have been more ex- 

 tensively used than for many years previously. 



The need is felt of securing a permanent location and one 

 convenient to the patrons of the Society — a building which 

 might be used by other societies would be preferred. There was 

 a general expression of opinion at this meeting that the Society 

 should secure a suitable building, and if possible, induce kindred 

 societies to join them in such an enterprise. 



The officers elected weie : — 



President— Otto J. Klotz. 



First Vice-President — Rev. Dr. Saunders. 



Second Vice-President — W. D. LeSueur. 



Secretary — O. J. Jollifife. 



Treasurer — W. J. Barrett. 



Curator — J. H. Bronskill. 



Members of the Council : — 



M. J. Gorman. 



Lt.-Col. J. Pennington MacPherson. 



J. Ballantyne. 



O. J. JOLIFFE, 

 Ottawa, May ^5th, i8q7. Secretary. 



Correction. — '' The Lyrical Poetry of the Elizabethans^' was 

 the exact title of Mr. Duncan C. Scott's paper presented on 

 Feb. 4th, 1897, at the course of lectures given under the auspices 

 of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. In the March 

 issue of the Ottawa Naturalist (p. 226) another title was 

 given. 



