MAY, 1916 



VOL. XXX, No 2 



THE 



OTT AW A 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 



Eel tor: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Entomological Branch, Department op Agriculturb, 



OTTAWA. 



associate JBDttore: 



Iarlan I. Smith, W. H. Harrington, P. A. Taverner, 



Anthropology. Entomology. Ornithology. 



I. O. Malte, Ph. D. M. Y. Williams, Ph.D. L. M. Lambe, F.G.S., 



Botany. Geology. Pakeontology. 



>rof. John Macoun, M.A. Otto Klotz, LL.D. C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc. 



Conchology. Meteorology. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



'he Use of Wild Plants as Food by Indians. By Tom Wilson - 1 7 



iome Notes on Fossil Collecting and on The Edriosateroidea. By 



G. H. Hudson 21 



Jird Notes. By W. J. Brown - 26 



Aberration in Hepatica acutiloba. By Bro. M. Victorin - - 27 



L Preliminary Paper on the Origin and Classification of Intra- 



formational Conglomerates and Breccias. By R. M. Field - 29 



The Rolla L. Crain Co., Limiteb 



ISSUED JUNE 13, 1916 



