The Ottawa Naturalist 

 BOOK NOTICES. 



[Vol. XXXII. 



In Audubon s Labrador,*. By Chas. W. 

 Townsend, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918, pp. 354-f 

 xii, $2.50 net. This charmingly written book after 

 a resume of Audubon's famous Labrador expedition 

 in 1833 describes the route taken by Dr. C. W. 

 Townsend, ornithologist, and H. St. John, botanist, 

 in following in the wake of Audubon, on a coasting 

 schooner in 1915, under the auspices of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey. Aside from the light it throws upon 

 the work of the Father of American Ornithology on 

 this romantic coast, it contains much interestmg com- 

 ment upon the country, its inhabitants, resources and 

 wild life. Powerful pleas are made for the pro- 

 tection of the eider ducks to preserve them from 

 threatened extinction and the conservation of other 

 neglected resources of this barren country. Advance 

 publication of the matter on the eider has already 

 appeared in the Aul(, for January, 1914, and a 

 similar article by the same author was published in 

 the Seventh Annual Report of the Commission of 

 Conservation of Canada, in 1916. Dr. Townsend 

 has pointed out the necessity for the protection of 

 wild life on this coast ; the late international migra- 

 tory bird convention has furnished the federal gov- 

 ernment with a further incentive and the means for 

 doing so. It is to be hoped that determined steps 

 will be taken in this direction before it is too late. 



the locality to 163, and establishes 15 more of 

 them as breeders. To a copiously annotated list is 

 added an interesting account of the conditions ex- 

 hibited by the seasons under treatment, the changes 

 and variations in bird life, and pertinent generalities. 

 The annotations contain a great store of life-history, 

 distributional and other data. It is a valuable 

 addition to our ornithological knowledge of eastern 

 Canada. 



In the Auf(, for July, is a paper of importance 

 to Canadian ornithology. 



Further Notes and Observations on the 

 Birds of Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec, 

 1916-1917; by H. Mousley, pp. 289-310. This 

 is a further contribution to a similar paper by the 

 same author published in the Aul(, in 1916, and 

 brings it up to the above date. It adds 41 species 

 to those then listed bringing the number noted in 



*Reviewea by W. S.. Auk, XXXV, No. f,, .Tuiv, 



Forty-eighth Annual Report of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontarlo, 1917. Pub- 

 lished by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, 

 1918. This report of 127 pages appeared recently. 

 It contains valuable articles of special interest to 

 Canadian students of insect life. Among the more 

 important contributions the following may be men- 

 tioned: "The Apple and Thorn Skeletonizer," by 

 Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New York; 

 "Some Notcdontian Larvae, " by Rev. Dr. J. A. 

 Corcoran, Montreal ; "The Problem of Mosquito 

 Control," by Dr. T. J. Headlee, State Entomolo- 

 gist of New Jersey; "The Black Cherry Aphis," 

 by Mr. W. A. Ross, Vineland Station, Ont. ; "A 

 Comedy of Errors," by Mr. F. J. A. Morris, 

 Peterborough, Ont. ; "Transcanadian Spiders," by 

 Mr. J. H. Emerton, Boston, Mass.; "Dusting 

 versus Spraying to Control Fruit Tree Insects and 

 Fungous Diseases," by Prof. L. Caesar, Guelph, 

 Ont. ; "The Ecology of Insects," by Prof. W. 

 Lochhead, Macdonald College, Que. ; "Effect of 

 Stable and Horn Fly Attacks on Milk Production," 

 by Mr. A. W. Baker, Guelph, Ont.; "Potato 

 Stem-borer and Zebra Caterpillar," by Prof. W. H. 

 Brittain, Truro, N.S. ; "The Entomological Record 

 for 1917," by Mr. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa. This 

 latter paper of 24 pages gives a large number of new 

 distributional records from the various provinces. 



OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Charles K. Dodge. 



Canada lost one of her best botanists when Mr. 

 Charles K. Dodge died recently at Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., for although living at Port Huron, Mich., 

 much of his field work in botany was done in Can- 

 ada. His botanical work is an unanswerable reply 

 to those who think that busy men have no time for 

 scientific work. For many years a U.S. Customs 

 official, every holiday and every spare hour during 

 the summer months were spent in collecting and 

 studying plants, the country on both sides of the St. 

 Clair river giving him a rich field for study close 



to his home. In recent years his holidays were spent 

 working in conjunction with the Michigan Biological 

 Survey. No other botanist knew the flora of 

 Michigan as he did and certainly no Canadian 

 botanist has given the same study to the adjacent 

 parts of Ontario. Mr. Dodge published many notes 

 and papers on his work in Ontario the most import- 

 ant being an "Annotated List of Flowering Plants 

 and Ferns of Point Pelee, Ont., and Neighbouring 

 Districts," published by the Geological Survey of 

 Canada as Memoir No. 54. J. M. M. 



