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anv appreciable harm we must conclude that they and later nested nearby. We have also seen them 



are either eating weed seeds or insects. We know repeatedly devour cutworms during the nesting sea- 



that before the spring really opened that horned- son so that the evidence of their usefulness seems 



larks partook daily of the weed seeds placed for to be without question, 

 them. This is doubtless why they became tame 



BRIEF RKPORT OF THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 

 FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 2, 1919. 



At the March, 1919, annual meeting of the 

 Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, the constitution 

 was amended to make the club year coincide with 

 the calendar year, and, therefore, each future volume 

 of the club publication will cover one calendar year 

 instead of parts of two as in the past. In spite of 

 the fact that owing to this change in the constitution, 

 the past year — the fortieth of the existence of the 

 Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, covering a period 

 of only nine months — was the most successful in 

 the recent history of the society, which now has a 

 membership of 644, or more than double that of 

 1917. 



The club activities are directed toward the popu- 

 laiizing and the diffusing of knowledge of the na- 

 tural sciences, and are carried on in three chief 

 ways: a course of lectures, two series of field ex- 

 cursions, and the publication of The CANADIAN 

 Field-Naturalist. 



Owing to the short year the lecture programme 

 was not begun prior to the annual meeting. A list 

 of thirty-six lectures to be given by club members 

 has been sent to local societies, clubs, churches and 

 schools from which they may select and request oe- 

 sirable talks. 



The eight field excursions were well patronized, 

 the average attendance being 23. Scientific men 

 attended the excursions to direct interest and answer 

 questions. 



TriE Canadian Field-Naturalist, the official 

 organ of the club which has completed its 

 thirty-third volume, is also now being used as a 

 medium of publication by the four affiliated societies 

 listed on the cover. 



At a recent meeting the council was informed that 

 Mr. R. B. White had bequeathed the club one 

 hundred dollars per year, which will be allowed to 

 accumulate along with other funds in trust to form 

 the nucleus of a trust fund the interest of which 

 will eventually be used to promote natural history 

 research work m Canada. 



The officers and committee for the year 1920 arc 

 as follows: 



; Vice-Presidents, L. 



Secretary, Clyde L. 



B. Crampe ; Editor, 



uncil: Hoyes Lloyd, 



, Miss M. E. Cowan, 



nbere, H. I. Smith, 



W. Waugh, E. M. 



R. E. DeLury, F. 



President, M. Y. Williams 

 D. Burling, R. M. Anderson; 

 Patch; Treasurer, Miss E. 

 Arthur Gibson. 



Additional members of Co 

 W. T. Macoun, G. A. Miller 



C. B. Hutchings, C. M. Ste 

 P. A. Taverner, E. Sapir, F. 

 Kindle, W. J. Wintemberg, 

 Johansen. 



STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL. 



Publications — Clyde L. Patch, A. Gibson, L. D. 

 Burling, H. Lloyd, F. Johansen. 



Excursions — F. W. Waugh, C. M. Sternberg, 

 G .A. Miller, Miss M. E. Cowan, C. L. Patch, C. 

 B. Hutchings, W. T. Macoun, H. Lloyd, F. 

 Johansen. 



Lectures — R. M. Anderson, P. A. Taverner, L. 



D. Burling, W. T. Macoun, G. A. Millar. 



Trust Funds — W. T. Macoun, C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, H. M. Ami. 



Auditors—]. Ballantyne, E. C. Wight. 



LEADERS AT EXCURSIONS. 



Archaeology — ^Harlan I. Smith, F. W. Waugh, 

 W. J. Wintemberg, Dr. C. M. Barbeau, Dr. E. 

 Sapir. 



Botany— G. A. Millar, W. T. Macoun, Mrs. 

 A. F. Brown, Dr. M. O. Malte, J. R. Dymond, E. 

 C. Wight, Miss M. E. Cowan. 



Entomology — C. B. Hutchings, Arthur Gibson, 

 J. M. Swaine, F. W. L. Sladen, Miss Crampe. 



Geology— Dr. E. M. Kindle, Dr. M. Y. 

 Williams, H. McGillivray, L. D. Burling, E. 

 Poitevin, Dr. M. E. Wilson. 



Orniihology-^P. A. Taverner, C. L. Patch, Dr. 

 M. Y. Williams, A. G. Kingston, Hoyes Lloyd. 



Zoology— Dr. R. M. Anderson, A. Halkett, C. 

 L. Patch. E. A. LeSueur, C. H. Young, C. E. 

 Johnson. 



Photography — W. S. Hutton. 



