1907] Council Meetings. 167 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



A meeting of the Council of the Ottawa Field Naturalists* 

 Club was held on October* 8th in the Normal School with the 

 1st Vice-President, Mr. A. E. Attwood in the chair. Members 

 present were; Rev. Mr. Eifrig, Messrs. H. H. Pitts, A. Gibson, 

 E. E. Lemieux, and T. E. Clarke, Miss A. L. Matthews, Miss Q. 

 Jackson, and Miss I. Ritchie. 



Mr. J. F. Power, B.A., of the Normal School staff was 

 elected an ordinary' member of the Club. 



The series of fall excursions having proved so successful, 

 it was decided to hold a sub-excursion to Britannia on October 

 12th, Rev. Mr. Eifrig to be in charge. 



An informal discussion on the programme of soirees for 

 the approaching winter brought out so many good suggestions 

 that the Club may rest assured of a repetition of the success that 

 attended the lecture programme last season. 



REVIEW. 



PENHALLOW. D. P., Prof. "Manual of the North American 

 Gymnosperms." 8vo. 374 pp. Illustrated with 5.^ plates, &c. Ginn 

 and Company. 



In this admirable work. Prof. Penhallow, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, gives a concise account of the anatomy of the North Ameri- 

 can Gymnosperms, and a full treatment of their histological 

 characters. The work deals with our Canadian as well as other 

 American species, together with references to Japanese as well 

 as Australian forms. Fossil plants referable to the Gymno- 

 sperms, which are so well-known in the extinct forests of the 

 Coal formations of old, so far as they are being and have been 

 studied, are included. This work is invaluable to all students 

 of recent as well as fossil botany. There are chapters also which 

 have a decided practical side and the economic problems in- 

 volved in manv instances add to the value of the work. Manv 

 interesting revelations await the reader and student who will 

 follow the path led by Dr. Penhallow in this most valuable 

 contribution to otir knowledge of the minute structure of the 

 Gvmnosperms. 



H.M.A. 



