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collections therein. But brief mention can be made of a few of the 
papers, the first of which is by Robert Ridgeway on " The Humming 
Birds," covering 130 pages and illustrated by 46 plates of the many 
species enumerated. "The Methods of Fire Making," by Walter Hough 
gives the various ways in which primitive people secured the all essential 
fire. Prof. Romyn Hitchcock contributes two very interesting papers, 
one on the"Ainos of Japan," a race which at one time probably 
inhabited the whole empire, but which is now a scanty people in the 
island of Yezo ; the other on the evidences of a race which may have 
preceeded the Ainos and which are designated as "The Ancient Pit 
Dwellers of Yezo. The first part of a " Handbook for the Department 
of Geology " appears and deals with Geognosy, or the materials of the 
earth's crust, by Geo. P. Merrill (Ed.) 
Birds of Michigan. Bulletin 94, Michigan Agricultural College. Prof. A. J. 
Cook. 
The Michigan Experiment Station here furnishes to its supporters 
a very valuable catalogue of the birds recorded from the State, many of 
which are illustrated in part or in whole The species recorded number 
332, and as the fauna of Michigan agrees in general with that of Ontario 
the members of the club will find the work of Prof. Cook to be of much 
interest and value to them in the study of our own bird fauna. (Ed.) 
BOTANY. 
Edited by W. Scott, B.A. 
Veronica Buxbaumii at Quebec. I have received from Miss Alice 
Bowen of Quebec, some nice specimens of the above pretty little Speed- 
well, which is such an attractive feature of the English hedgerows. 
"The plant was found in an old, neglected, garden flower-bed" at 
Quebec. This species is recorded by Macoun as a ballast plant from 
North Sydney, and Pictou, N. S., and by Burgess from Kingston and 
London, Ont. J. F. 
