48 The Ottawa Naturalist. [June- July 



miles southeast of Cape York, on August 20, 1916. She probably 

 reached North Star Bay at least and probably ha the explorers on 

 board. The third vessel will be sent to Etah, leaving St. John's early 

 in July. The committee hopes to obtain a Newfoundland sealer for 

 this purpose and to bring the Crocker Land expedition back to New- 

 foundland late in August. 



For the third consecutive year a collector of plants has been put 

 into certain of the northern counties of the State of Wisconsin by the 

 Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, devoting all of the season 

 to the collection of plants of the regions. This work is toward a plant 

 census of the State, on which the Museum has been working for several 

 vears. 



According to the "Museums Journal," sanction has been given by 

 the War Cabinet of Great Britain to establish a National War Museum 

 and "a committee has been formed to carry it into effect." "The object 

 is to collect and preserve for public inspection objects illustrating the 

 British share in the war." The Tower of London has been suggested 

 as an ideal place for such a "national storehouse of British Military 

 History." 



The Fisheries Branch of the Department of Naval Service, has 

 recently published a supplement to the Sixth Annual Report, containing 

 the following contributions to Canadian Biology: "The Winter Plank- 

 ton in the neighborhood of St. Andrews, 1914-15," by Prof. J. Playfair; 

 "Diatoms and Lobster Rearing," by Prof. W. T. MacClement; "On 

 the Scales of the Spring Salmon," by Dr. C. McLean Fraser; "On the 

 Life-history of the Coho," by Dr. C. McL. Fraser; "An Investigation 

 of Oyster Propagation in Richmond Bay, P.E.I., during 1915," by 

 Dr. J. Nelson; "The Marine Algae of the Passamaquoddy Region, 

 N.B.", by Prof. A. B. Klugh; "On Serially Stripe'd Haddock in New 

 Brunswick," by Prof. E. E. Prince; "Notes on the Phyto-Plankton of 

 the Bay of Fundy and Passamaquoddy Bay," by Prof. L. W. Bailey; 

 and "The Geological Features of the St. Croix River and Passama- 

 quoddy Bay," by Prof. L. W. Bailey. 





