180 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



hymenoptera. 



A large collection, especially of the smaller species, was made at 



various points in the vicinity of the city, of which may be noted, Kettle 



Island, the Old Racecourse, Beechwood, the Beaver Meadow and 



Russell's Grove, near Hull, the Experimental Farm and Dow's Swamp. 



The Aculeata, or sting-bearers, numbered about 125 species; Phyto- 



phaga, or leaf-eaters, 70 species ; and Parasitica, at least 200 species, 



of which a number will probably prove to be undescribed, while many 



of the others are new to our lists, or of very rare occurrence and special 



interest. 



J. Fletcher, \ 



W. H. Harrington \ Leaders. 



T. J. MacLaughlin j 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



1. Dr. George Lawson, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., etc., etc., professor of 

 Chemistry and Botany, in Dalhousie College, Halifax, well known to 

 many of the members of our club, with which he has been connected 

 for eleven years, breathed his last at his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

 November 1 ith, 1895. 



At the time of his death Dr. Lawson was President ot the Nova 

 Scotian Institute of Science, Halifax, an active member of Section IV 

 of the Royal Society of Canada, of which Society he had the honor of 

 being its President, and in Section IV,where he read valuable papers, chief 

 amongst which is his " Monograph of the Ranunculacege." Dr. Lawson 

 was born in 1827, at Maryton, a beautiful village on the banks of the 

 Tay, in Scotland. In his early days he was apprenticed to a solicitor in 

 Dundee, with a view to enter the legal profession. But he had 

 strong tastes for botany and natural history studies. These he pursued 

 vigorously, and came in contact with many scientific men of the times, 

 notably in Edinburgh. In 1849 he was elected to the position of Asst.- 

 Sec'y and Curator to the Botanical Society, and to a similar post in the 

 Caledonian Hoticultural Society. In 1S50 he published a work on 

 "Water Lilies," and was appointed secretary and editor of the Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society. He edited the transactions of this last named 



