THE 



JUNE, 1900. 



VOL. XIV, No. 3 



(The last number should have 

 been numbered No. i & 2.) 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST. 



Published by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



CONTENTS. 



Pagb 



1. Soils and the Maintenance of their Fertility Through the 



Growth of Legumes, by Frank T. Shutt, Dominion Experi- 

 mental Farms .... , . . . .... . . . , .... 37 



2. The Labrador Flying Squirrel, by J. D. Sornborg-er, Cam- 



bddge, Mass., U.S. .... .... .... .... 48 



3. The Two-Lined Salamander, Spelerpes Bilineatus (Green), by 



Walter S. Odell, Ottawa 53 



4. Zoological Notes .... ... .... g^ 



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