THE 



AUGUST, 1909 



VOL. XXin, Ho. 5 



OTTAWA 

 N ATURA LIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



EOftOt: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Central Experimental Farm, 

 OTTAWA. 



?l00oc(ate JEOItors: 



Dr. H. M. Ami, Geology. Prof. E. E. Prince, W. T. Macoun, Botany. 



Dr. J. F. Whiteaves, n^,, r o, ^ oo ogy. j^y Qjag^j^ jyj^ 



Pa,.o>olo,y^ "=' - '""'S,U<,;g,. Nature S.dy. 



Hon. F. R. Latchford, W. H. Harrington, A. McNeill, Meteorology. 

 Conchology. Entomology. 



CONTENTS: 



Certain Biological Principles and their Practical Application in 

 the Improvement of the Field Crops of Canada. By L. H. 

 Newman, B.S.A. - - ------ - 85 



Algonkin and Huron Occupation of the Ottawa Valley. By T. 



W. E. Sowter - 92 



Note on Megorismus fletcheri. By Arthur Gibson - . - 104 



Oopeland-Chatterson-Crain Limited 



ISSUED AUGUST 2, 1909. 

 h'nterei tU the Ottawi Post Office as stooiul das$ matter. 



