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to the Drosera, a plant much beloved by him, as like a highly- 

 sensitive animal. Francis Darwin, in his address before the 

 British Association, actually refers to the instinctive power of 

 memory in plants! In Europe many investigators have in- 

 terested themselves in this study, and, in 1908, at one of the 

 meetings of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Dr. 

 Haberlandt, one of our foremost botanists, declared that the 

 intellectual physiological functions in plants find their perfect 

 analogy in the intellectual psychological functions of mankind. 

 So after all, Aristotle, the celebrated Greek philosopher, fore- 

 stalled modern ideas by speaking of the soul of plants! 



My remarks on this subject I trust will not be misunderstood, 

 though many will ridicule the idea of a plant psychology. But 

 the ardent observer, the true lover of the study of plants, may 

 find in these observations some hints to make the science of 

 botany still dearer to him, when realizing that he deals not only 

 with an inanimate soulless vegetation. 



BIRD MIGRATION IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA 



By Rev. J. H. Keen. 



The following notes may be of interest as helping to show 

 the movements of the migratory birds in this region. They are 

 scrupulously correct as far as they go, but they were made 

 during the brief intervals of leisure in a busy clergyman's life, 

 and are by no means as complete as they might be. In 1906 no 

 observations were made, as the writer was away from home. 



The regularity with which some migrants appear is truly 

 wonderful. The humming-bird and white-bellied swallow, for 

 instance, have varied scarcely more than a fortnight during the 

 ten years covered by these records, and the robin less than three 

 weeks during the same time. 



The failure of the osprey to appear during recent years is 

 strange. He is too large to be overlooked, especially as a sharp 

 look-out has been kept for him. 



Most of the resident species of birds here are partial migrants 

 as appears by the obvious increase in their numbers in spring, 

 and a corresponding decrease towards winter. 



