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^" AUGUST-SEPT., 1917 



_ f Vol. XXXI, Nos. S & 6. 



THE " 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 



Editor: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 

 Entomological Branch, Department of Agriculture, 



OTTAWA. 



Associate Editors: 



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



Anthropology. Entomology. Ornithology. 



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



Botany. Geology. Palaeontology. 



Prof.JohnMacoun.M.A., Otto Klotz, LLD.. C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc, 



Conchology. Meteorology. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



The Purple Martin. By Charles Macnamara 49 



Alberni Notes (Botany). By J. K. Henry 54 



Canada and United States will Protect Birds 58 



The Widespread Influence of the Children's Museum. 



By Harlan I. Smith 59 



The Journal of William Pope 60 



Notes 63 



The Dadson-Merrill Press, Limited. 

 issued November 13TH, 19 17. 

 Entered at Ottawa Post Office as second clan matter. 



