Excerpt from 1881-1882, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club: Transactions No; 3 This evening it is again mv privilege, now for the third time, to deliver the opening address in our course of winter entertainments. I am happyuto be able to inform you that the Club is in a very prosperous condition. Not only has the number of members on the roll been increased, but also that of those actively engaged in studying natural history and so furthering the object. For which the Club was organized.' As it has now become a custom of the Club to publish among other papers the inaugural address of the President in full, and as we have this evening to receive some of the reports of the different branches, mv address will not be of so great a length as heretofore. In the two previous years too much space in the Transactions has been taken up by the President's address, to the exclusion of less general and therefore more valuable matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.