1903] Ami Correspondence, 207 



Grosjean, another natural'st, from old France, came later and 

 added many specimens, chiefly birds, and displayed much skill as 

 a taxidermist. 



For the above statements, I am indebted to Abb6 V. A. Huard, 

 the enthusiastic editor of " Le Naturaliste Canadien," who records 

 them in his interesting book of travels entitled " Labrador and 

 Anticosti," published in 1897, in Montreal, by C. O. Beauchemin 

 & Fils, and in Paris, by A. Roger & F. Chernoviz. 



H. M. A. 



RUSKIN S DEFINITION OF THE WORD MUSEUM. 



" A museum," ' is, be it first observed, primarily not at all a 

 place of entertainment, but a place of education, and a museum 

 is, be it secondly observed, not a place for elementary education, 

 but for that of already far advanced scholars, and it is by no 

 means the same thing as a parish school, or a Sunday school, or 

 a day school, or even the Brighton Aquarium.' 



"Be it observed, in the third place," "that the word 

 * School ' means ' Leisure,' and the word * Museum ' means 

 ' Belonging to the Muses ;' and that all schools and museums 

 whatsoever can only be what they claim to be, and ought to be 

 places of noble instruction, where the persons who have a mind 

 to use them can obtain so much relief from the work, or exert 

 so much abstinence from the disipation of the outside world as 

 may enable them to devote a certain portion of secluded, 

 laborious, and reverent life to the attainment of Wisdom." 

 Fors Clavigera, vol. v. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



On the Upper Cretaceous Age of the Belly River series 



OR formation in Canada. 



Editor, Ottawa Naturalist : 



The recent work " On ihe Vertebrata of the Mid-Cretaceous 

 of the North West Territory," by Henry Fairfield Osborn and 

 Lawrence M. Lambe, as well as the '* Review " of the same by 



