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elected Corresponding Members, and the following gentlemen were 

 elected Fellows : Sec. I, Adolphe Poissoh (Arthabaskaville) ; Sec. 

 II, Wilfred W. Campbell (Ottawa), Arthur Harvey (Toronto), Dr. J. 

 A. McCabe (Ottawa), Lt. Gov. J. C. Schultz (Winnipeg) ; Sec. Ill, 

 Rev. Dr. Williamson (Kingston) ; Sec. IV, G. U. Hay (St. John N. B.), 

 W. H. Harrington (Ottawa), and Rev. G. W. Taylor (Victoria B.C.). 

 Wm. Kirby (Niagara), and Ewan McColl (Toronto), of Sec. II, were 

 created Retired Members. Sections II and IV have now their full 

 quota of members, there is one vacancy in Sec. I, and four in Sec. III. 

 Some sixty papers were read before the sections, many of which 

 were extensive contributions to literature and science. In section III, 

 a paper was read by Mr. Shutt, entitled " Some observations on the 

 quality of the air of Ottawa," but the papers read in section IV were 

 naturally of most interest to the members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' 

 Club. Prof. Macoun's Presidential address was a very valuable paper 

 on " The Forests of the Dominion and their Distribution." It is regretted 

 that for want of space not even the titles of the other papers can be given. 

 The Section elected the following officers for the current year : Presi- 

 dent, Mr. James Fletcher; Vice-Pres., Prof. Wesley Mills; Secretary, 

 Prof. Penhallow. [Ed.] 



BOOK NOTICES. 



On Cyphornis, ax Extinct <;k\h-s of Birds. By E. I). Cope. 

 Journal A. N. s. Philadelphia, Vol. IX, pp. 449452, Plate XX. 



To our knowledge of the extinct vertebrates of Canada, Prof. E. 

 I). Cope contributes an interesting chapter in the last fascicle issued 

 by the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. The 

 paper is based on a specimen collected by Dr. George M. Dawson, from 

 the 1 erliary Shales of the west coast of Vancouver Island and belongs 

 to the (-eological Survey of Canada. 



Elaborate descriptions and measurements of this specimen are 

 given on pages 440 <V seq t and it is said to consist of the " superior part 

 of a tarsometatarse ,' belonging to an extinct genus of bird. It was a 

 rather singular but fortunate occurrence that this portion of the skeleton 

 of this bird was preserved and discovered, inasmuch as " the tarso- 



