1^10] The Ottawa Naturalist. 211 



THE FLETCHER MEMORIAL FUND. 



At a meeting of the Fletcher Memorial Committee held on 

 the 7th February, it was decided to close the subscription list 

 to the above fimd on the 20th day of March next. The expecta- 

 tions of the Committee have almost been realized, but before 

 the list is finally closed, it is hoped that at least another hundred 

 dollars will be subscribed, so as to bring the total up to Si ,800. This 

 is the last appeal which the Committee intends to make, and, 

 therefore, if there are still any members of the Club, or others, 

 who wish to contribute to the Memorial to be erected at the 

 Central Experimental Farm, it is important that they should 

 attend to this matter at once. This will be the first memorial 

 of its kind in Canada, and the Committee is particularlv anxious 

 that it shall be worthy of him to whose memory it is to be erected. 

 This, of course, can best be accomplished with the help of as 

 many m.embers of the Club, and friends, as can conveniently 

 subscribe towards the cost of the undertaking. Arthur Gibson, 

 Secretary-Treasurer of Committee, (Experimental Farm, Ottawa) 



NOTES. 



Bartonia virginica in Quebec. In Mr. James M. Macoun's 

 "Contributions" in the January number of The Naturalist, 

 Bartonia virginica (L) BSP. is recorded from one Canadian 

 locality, near Mahone Bay N.S. I am glad to be able to add 

 to this record another from St. Hubert, near Montreal. In 190.^, 

 shortly before his death. Dr. Fletcher received specimens of 

 this plant collected by Father Marie- Victorin, in June, July and 

 August of that year, at the above localitv. They were stated to 

 be growing in the peat bogs of that place. Herbert Groh. 



Bonaparte's Gull. The stomach of a Bonaparte's Gull 

 taken at Point Pelee about November 25th, 1909, was sent to 

 Mr. Arthur Gibson, at the Experimental Farm, for the purpose 

 of having the contents determined. Over fifty noctuid larvae 

 were found, which Mr. Gibson reports to be of a species of 

 A gratis, or Hadena. 



The use of insects as food for gulls, was referred to by Mr. 

 Arthur H. Norton, in the October "Auk" when he mentioned the 

 maggots living in seaweed, used for this purpose, but the cater- 

 pillars eaten by the Bonaparte's Gull are terrestrial, and were 

 probably found in some such situation as a Muskrat house, 

 which consists of decayed vegetable matter, such as rush stems 

 and grasses. Thev must have been in considerable abundance to 

 have enabled the gull to find so many of them at one lime. 

 W. E. Saunders. London, Ont. 



