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At <mv first excursion tlie Club, for the seveutli time, visited 

 Kin<ys Mountain, which seems to have lost none of its okl tiuio attrac- 

 tiveness for our members. In the past it has always proved the most 

 popular excursion of each season, a record which this year it has added 

 to by being the largest we ever had; no less than 111) members and 

 friends taking part in it; nearly all of whom attempted the ascent of 

 the mountain and no less than 75 gathered on the bare rock at the 

 top, probal)ly the largest number that was ever theie at any one time. 

 I do not wonder at the attraction it has for our members, as it would 

 be hard to Had a more delightful spot for a day's outing. 



Our second excursion, on June 25th, vvas to the shores of I/ake 

 Deschenes, below Aylmer. This was a new locality and proved an 

 excellent collecting ground for l)oth Botanist and Entomologist, the 

 flora being unvisually abundant and showy, Eosa hlanda and Carolina 

 and the largf* showy flowers of our only wKd lily, L. F hiladeLpJdcutn , 

 being found in gi'Pat profusion. Being in Aylmer in the end of 

 August, 1 went over the same ground and was much surprised to find 

 dt a barren waste with hai'dly a flower to be found. The change was 

 partly to be accounted for by the excessive dryness of the season, but 

 chiefly, I think, by there being out a thin layer of soil over the lime- 

 stone, holding sufficient moisture to sustain growth during the spriig 

 and early summer, but under the hot summer sun becoming too dry for 

 ordinary vegetation, only such deep rooting plants as trees and grasses 

 being able to maintain themselves. The great contrast between my 

 "two visits shows how careful the excursion committee have to be to 

 -select tliel'test sea-son Un- each locality. 



The success of our third excursion, on July 2nd to Buckingham, 

 \'a'S "Somewhat mai'red by the unpromising appe9,rance of the weather. 

 AVhen tlie hour came fur the Ijoat to start only 24 menibers were on 

 Land, not half of tliose we expected ; however, for those who did go, it 

 ^tnmed out a most enjoyable day, as the clouds moderated the heat and 

 made the somewhat long walk through the woods from the wharf to 

 our rendezvous at the railway bridge a most delightful one. Most of 

 the party passed the day in the vicinity of the falls, but a few of tiie 

 more enthusiastic bot mists walked up the river along the slide and- 



