24 The Ottawa Naturalist [April 



at S,te. Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal, an institution which 

 will bring together the scattered agencies making for an educated 

 rural people into a great educational centre. It will include (a) 

 an Agricultural College, carrying on work similar to the one at 

 Guelph, where young men will receive instruction in all branches 

 of agriculture; (b) a Household Science College where young 

 women will get instruction in those subjects that make for better 

 home making, and (c) a College of Education for the training of 

 teachers, especially for rural schools. Agencies will be put in 

 operation for the extension of the work to all parts of Quebec, 

 and perhaps to the other provinces as well, so as to reach as 

 many of the rural people as possible. The 560 acres of land and 

 the magnificent group of buildings now nearing completion, will 

 cost over a million and a half ; and an Endowment Fund of two 

 millions has been provided for maintenance, so that it will be 

 self sustaining for all time to come. 



The Macdonald College will open its doors to students in 

 September next, when the work of instruction will begin. Tuition 

 will be free to all students from Quebec, and no distinction will 

 be made for language or creed ; all will be made equally welcome 



PROGRAMME OP EXCURSIONS. 



April 20 Rockliffe. 



27 Beechwood. 

 May 4 Blueberry Point. 

 11 Leamy's Lake. 

 18 Beaver Meadow. 



25 Victoria Park and Experimental Farm. 

 June 1 General Excursion to Chelsea. 



The time and place of meeting will, for all but the general 

 excursion, be 3 p.m. at the point on the electric railway, nearest 

 the places mentioned above. 



