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January /th, 1897, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. — " Under 

 the Midnight Suti — a Trip to Icelmid,'' with lime-light illustra- 

 tions. By Prof. James Mavor, University of Toronto. 



At this lecture the Report of the Geological Branch of the 

 of the Club was read by one of the leaders, Dr. H. M. Ami. 

 This report will appear in the April number of the OTTAWA 

 Naturalist. 



As Prof Mayor's lecture has already been published in extenso 

 in two leading Scottish magazines the above references are given 

 for the benefit of those who desire to peruse this interesting study 

 of the descendants of that early race which inhabits one of the 

 most remote and northerly centres of civilization. 



January 2IST, 1897, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. — ''Recent 

 Explorations in Canada " was the subject of this evening's 

 entertainment. 



The Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson, was present and introduced the subject with a few 

 preliminary remarkson the progress made in geographical research 

 since '9.1 — in which year he had read a paper before the Ottawa 

 Field-Naturalists' Club — when he pointed out that there was 

 then not less than 950,000 square miles of unexplored territory 

 in British North America — in round numbers 1,000,000 square 

 miles. Since that time, various exploratory surveys were carried 

 on by the Geological Survey Department and by the other 

 Geographical branches of the Canadian Government, chiefly 

 under the direction of Capt. E. Deville, Surveyor General, and 

 not less than 350,000 square miles of British territory had been 

 made known within these six years of research. 



Dr. Robert Bell was the next speaker. He described more 

 particularly the region which may be called northermost Ontario 

 in that part of the province and in the adjacent parts of Quebec 

 which border on James's Bay. He spoke at length upon the 

 non-validity and non-permanence of Indian names and con- 



