164 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



LECTURE COURSE. 



The Councils of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club and Literary and Scientific 

 Society each appointed a sub-committee to prepare a joint course of lectures to be 

 given under the auspices of the two societies during the present winter season. The 

 Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club was represented by Messrs. Shutt, Fletcher, Prince, 

 Sinclair and Ami, whilst the following represented the Ottawa Literary and Scientific 

 Society r Messrs Klotz, LeSueur, Ells, Saunders and Jolliffe. 



At a joint meeting of these committees Mr. W. D. LeSueur and Dr. Ami were 

 respectively elected to the position of Chairman and Secretary. 



The subjciued programme of lectures was finally agreed upon by both com- 

 mittees. 



As can be seen from a mere glance at the programme now in the hands of the 

 members of both societies, the lectures are of an attractive nature, and it is hoped 

 that the attendance will continue as good as it has been both at the conversazione 

 and at Prof. Cox's lecture. There is a decided increase over the attendance of last 

 yeai, which was deemed an exceedingly high and satisfactory one. 

 Lecture Course, 1896-1897, Under the Joinn Auspices of the Ottawa 



Field Naturalists' Club and the Literary and Scientific Society, 



to BE held in the Assemblv Hall of the Provincial Nobmal School, 



Ottawa (Lisgar Sireet Entrance). All Lectures Free, and to 



begin at 8 P.M. SHARP. 



Nov. 19. — Conversazione. Exhibition of Microscopical Objects, Nataral History 

 Specimens and Lantern Slide;). 



Short Addresses by 



Dr. J. A. MacCabe, F.R.S.C, Principal, Normal School, Ottawa. 

 Mr. F. T. Shutt, M..'\., F.C.S., President, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' 

 Club. 



Mr. Otto J. Klotz, President, Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. 

 Mr. A. H. MacDougall, B.A., President, Ottawa Teachers' Asso- 

 ciation. 

 Five-Minute talks on Natural History. Objects and Specimens Exhibited_ 



Nov. 27.— Prof. John Cox, M.A., F.R.S.C, (of the Physics Laboratories, McGill 

 ^University, Montreal) " Electrical Discharges in High Vacua." (Illus- 

 trated). 



Dec. 17.— Prof. Leigh R. Gregor, M.A., Ph. D. (Heidelberg), of McGill Univer- 

 sity, Montreal, "Goethe." 



Jan. 7. — Prcf. Jas. Mavor, University of Toronto, " Under the Midnight Sun — A 

 trip to Iceland " (with original sciopticon views). 

 Report of the Geological Section, O.F.N.C. 



Jan. 21.- Dr. G. M. Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., &c., "Recent Explorations in 

 Canada," with remarks by Dr. Bell, J. B. Tyrrell and A. P. Low. 

 Report of the Botanical Section, O.F.N.C. 



Feb. 4. — Mr. W. D. LeSueur, B.A., "The Meaning and Value of Culture." 



Feb. 18.— Andrew Macphail, B.A., M.D., M.R.C.S., Prof, of Pathology, Univer- 

 sity of Bishop's College, Montreal ; and A. Arthman Bruere, M.D., 

 (Edin.) Prof, of Physiology, University of Bishop's College, Montreal, 

 " The American Lobster," (with illustrations). 

 Report of Entomological Section, O.F.N.C. 



Mar. 4.— Mr. Otto J. Klotz, "Weather." 



Mar. II.— Mr. John Craig, Horticulturist, Central Experimental Farm, "Fruit and 

 Fruit Districts of Canada,'' (illustrated). 

 Report of Ornithological Section, O.F.N.C. 



