ii8 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



Weston was sent to Troy, N.Y., to collect fossils. He spent 

 some time at Bald Mountain and Glen Falls. 



Lowe made surveys in St. Jerome Township, Que. 



1865. 



Logan arrived in Canada early in June. He ascended the 

 Petite Nation River in September, but was recalled to Montreal 

 by his brother's death. 



Richardson spent the summer in the Eastern Townships. 



A. Michel, mining- engineer, was ent;aged to explore the gold- 

 bearing gravels and quartz veins of the Chaudiere River, Que. 



Bell was employed during the summer on an exploration of 

 Manitoulin Island. H. G. Vennor, accompanied him. 



Thomas Macfarlane examined the north-east shore of Lake 

 Superior and visited the copper mines of Portage Lake, Michigan. 



Weston was sent to Anticosti and Silver Brook, Gasp6, to 

 collect fossils. 



Hunt made assays of gold-ores from the Chaudiere River, 



Q"^- . ... 



Lowe made surveys in Suffolk and Petite Nation Townships, 

 Q"e. 



THE KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE. 

 ( G\ m nocladus Canadensis. J 



By Rev. John Morrison, London, Ont. 

 When on my holiday tiip in the summer of 1898, L visited my 



friend H and his beautiful home on the east side and closely 



overlooking the little river Sydenham, just over the boundary of 

 Lambton County, in Kent. As I tied up my horse I was surprised 

 to notice beside the driveway some five or six very fine specimens 

 of the Gymnocladus Canadensis, about four inches in diameter and 

 fifteen feet high. On enquiring where he got them, I was doubly 

 surprised when told that fifteen years before he dug them up about 

 a mile away on the western side of the river believing them to be 

 walnuts; that only quite recently had he discovered they were not 

 walnuts, and he did not know what they were, nor did anyone 

 veho had looked at them, and one man urged him to cut them 

 down lest they might be of a poisonous nature. I informed him 

 what they were, and not having time then I was compelled to 

 wait a year. Then, when on my annual holiday I spent some 



