112 The Ottawa Naturalist. [Sept. 



The sixth annual issue of the Ontario Natural Science 

 Bulletin, published by our sister society, the Wellington Field- 

 Naturalists' Club, of Guelph, Ont., has come to hand, and is a 

 neat seventy-page volume which worthily maintains the fine 

 character of the publication. This year, perhaps even more 

 than usual, a large proportion of its space is devoted to articles 

 and notes which represent the work of Ontario naturalists on 

 Ontario subjects. Many of these contributions are local lists 

 which put on record the results of years of patient collecting 

 and observation, and are real additions to the biological knowl- 

 edge of the province. Among, the groups thus treated are the 

 Orchids, Compositae, Amelanchiers and Cruciferse, among plants, 

 and the Butterflies and Cynipids among insects. A number 

 of new records and range extensions of birds and plants also 

 appear. Several articles written in a less technical vein are 

 scarcely less welcome in their way, than the foregoing. The 

 volume closes with a report of the winter meetings of the Club, 

 which were evidently of a high order as indicated by the subjects 

 presented. H. G. 



In a recent number of the Proceedings of the Portland 

 Societyof Natural History, Vol. II, Part 8, Mr. W. C. Kendall con- 

 tributes an article on "The Fishes of Labrador." The paper is 

 based mainly upon a collection of fishes made during the ex- 

 pedition of the Bowdoin College party to Labrador in 1891. 

 Seven of the species recorded, it is stated, have hitherto never 

 been reported from Labrador. Notes are also given on some 

 species collected in other places on the trip. A list of all the 

 species definitely recorded from Labrador follows, with authority 

 and date of each record. This authority and date refer to a 

 chronological bibliography and list of collections, in connection 

 with each of which is given a table showing the nominal species 

 recorded from Labrador, the locality and present indentification 

 of those contained in each work or collection. 



This paper should prove of much interest to Canadian 

 ichthyologists. The author states that the aquatic fauna of the 

 region is in many respects similar to that, of Greenland and 

 more northern waters, and that it may be reasonably expected 

 that Greenland marine fishes at least, not yet recorded from 

 Labrador, may yet be found there. 



The article is the fifth one on the scientific results of the 

 expedition. The third paper of the series, "Some Recent Addi- 

 tions to the Labrador Flora" by Fernald and Sornborger, was 

 pubHshed in The Ottawa* {^-kuralist, Vol. XIII, pp. 89, 107. 



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