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horn" stage oi Bison crassicomis, than it does with those ot his 

 B. Occident alls. 



N'^. 4 is a portion of a horn, with its core, which is too im- 

 perfect to be determined specifically, collected by Mr. W. Ogilvie 

 in 1898, eigfhteen feet and a half below the surface, at Bonanza 

 Creek, Claim 39. above Discovery. 



It would appear therefore that Nos. i, 2, 3, and possibly 

 No. 4, are referable to the Bison Crassicomis of Richardson, as 

 that species is understood by Mr. Lucas. They are all obviously 

 of no very fjreat antiquity, and show no traces of mineralization. 



Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has advanced the theory that 

 the bison of the plains is a "degenerate modern offshoot of the 

 woodland stock," and it may well be that both are degenerate 

 descendants of the great extinct bison of Alaska and the 

 Klondike. 



J. F. W. 



SOIREES. 



At the second of the Club's Soirees in St. John's Hall, Jan. 

 13th, Dr. R. A. Daly lectured on "The Scenery of the Rocky 

 Mountain Region." A brief summary will indicate the ground 

 covered by the address. 



The variety of form and colour in mountain scenery is 

 practically infinite. But in the same way that a more or 

 less complete understanding of plants and animals is possible 

 through the recognition of the existence of species and 

 of higher classes, notwithstanding the immense number of 

 variations in individuals, so an intelligent view of scenic 

 forms as seen in mountain ranges is possible because of the 

 fact that those forms are reducible to types. A second 

 valuable aid in appreciating the elements of mountain scenery 

 is found in the fact that the types recur because they are 

 the product of general laws in the formation of the actual moun- 

 tains seen by the tourist. It was pointed out that the lantern- 

 slide illustrations of the evening might thus have more value if 

 they were regarded as so many examples of processes character- 



