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 A PROPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION. 



For some time past there has been evinced on the part of several 

 of our members, the desire to form a photographic section in the Club. 

 To put such on a good and firm basis, it would be necessary to obtain 

 the names of at least twenty members who would be willing to pay a 

 small annual fee, a fund being required to defray the expense involved 

 in providing a dark-room, the use of certain chemicals and some 

 preliminary instructions in the art and practice of photography. 



With the exception of Ottawa, all our large Canadian cities have a 

 camera club. The clubs have a large membership of amateur photo- 

 graphers and are generally in a flourishing condition. To keep up the 

 interest an annual exhibition of work by the members is made. There 

 is certainly a need of such an organization here, and all things considered, 

 it would seem the better plan to form a section of the Field-Naturalist's 

 Club for this purpose, rather than a new society. 



Photography is not only an interesting and fascinating recreation, 

 but a most instructive study, a study specially applicable to investiga- 

 tion in the various fields of Natural History. 



We shall be pleased if those members who are wishful to form 

 such a section of the Club will send their names to the Secretary, Dr. 

 H. M. Ami, Geological Survey Department, Ottawa. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



One of the most interesting periodicals relating to scientific 

 agriculture, which is received at this office, is the Agricultural Gazette 

 of New South Wales. It is issued monthly by the Department of 

 Agriculture of that colony ; the subjects treated are always well pre- 

 pared, carefully written and satisfactorily illustrated. While all 

 departments are carefully edited, that relating to the field of botany is 

 particularly interesting from an economic standpoint. We have before 

 us the August number, and notice among the names of its contributors 

 that of Dr. B. D. Halsted, Botanist and Horticulturist to the New 

 Jersey Experiment Station. Dr. Halsted is known in Canada, but 

 more especially in the United States as one of the foremost mycologists of 

 the day, and an accepted authority upon cryptogamic botany. 



