. The Canadian field-naturalist. Rgure 3. Lieutenant-Colonel William White, May 1901. White was the first president of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, and also the Ottawa Horticultural Society. EarUer he was president of the Ottawa Athenaeum and Mech- anical Institute. Photographer William James Topley, Ottawa, archived at the Library and Archives of Can- ada, Ottawa: E 81666). that fellow ONHS veteran John Thorbum chair the meeting. Perhaps to counter this old guard move, new- comers Joseph Martin and Henry B. Small Jr. subse- quently moved that Fletcher be made Secretary of the meeting.
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Rgure 3. Lieutenant-Colonel William White, May 1901. White was the first president of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, and also the Ottawa Horticultural Society. EarUer he was president of the Ottawa Athenaeum and Mech- anical Institute. Photographer William James Topley, Ottawa, archived at the Library and Archives of Can- ada, Ottawa: E 81666). that fellow ONHS veteran John Thorbum chair the meeting. Perhaps to counter this old guard move, new- comers Joseph Martin and Henry B. Small Jr. subse- quently moved that Fletcher be made Secretary of the meeting. The social pecking order apparently satisfied, Fletcher then got discussion under way (LAC OFNC Collection, 25 March 1879). After some debate of whether to stay affiliated with the OLSS or to form a separate group, the actual mo- tion to establish an independent OFNC was moved by Joseph Martin (seconded by R. B. Whyte): "... that it is advisable to form a Field Naturalists Club for the City of Ottawa and do proceed to organize". It was only after this motion had been passed that Fletcher reported to the gentlemen assembled that a small group (consisting of at least James Fletcher, Will Harrington, R. B. Whyte (Figure 5), Joseph Martin, and Henry Small Jr.) had actually held preliminary consultations on 11 March 1879 to prepare a proposal to the Council of the OLSS - and no doubt, to map out strategies. At that preliminary meeting they had drafted a motion (Fletcher, seconded by H. B. Small Jr.) that in light of "... an Ottawa-Field Naturalists Club having been organized in ;, this new group "... would gladly contribute to the Museum of the OL & S Society and thereby revive its present dormant condition". In exchange, they asked that the OFNC be allowed to use the OLSS rooms for meetings. An additional clause asking that the new organization be "under the auspices" of the OLSS was an apparent face-saving offer, since the OFNC
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