THE 



DECEMBER, 1915 



VOL. XXIX, Ho. 9 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 



Harlan I. Smith, 



Anthropology. 



M. O. Malte, Ph. D. 



Botany. 



Prof. John Macoun, M.A. 

 Conchology. 



BdttOt: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Entomological Branch, Department of Agriculture, 



OTTAWA. 



Bddociate jEditotS: 



W. H. Harrington, 



Entomology. 



H. M. Ami, D.Sc. 



Geology. 



Otto Klotz, LL.D. 



Meteorology. 



P. A. Taverner, 



Ornithology, 



L. M. Lambe, F.G.S., 



Palaeontology. 



C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc. 

 Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



The Use of Gum Damar in Paleohistology (with Notes on the 



Genus Benthopecten). By GeoRGE H. Hudson - - 101 



" Gleanings in Fernland." By Frank Morris - - - 105 



The Curious Egg of the Hagfish {Myxine). By E. E. Prince - 111 



A Suggestive note as to what might be brought to light about the 

 Paddlefish through Deep Lake Dredging. By Andrew 

 Halkett 114 



Book Notice: Johnston's List of Canadian Mineral Occurences 116 



The Rolla L. Grain Co., Limited 



issued JAN. 6, 1916 



Entered at Ottawa Post Offtce as second class matter. 





