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that it is absolutely necessary as a touchstone for the interpret- 

 ation of the hig-hest and best in literature ? 



Lecture Night. 



Tiie next Evening Meeting- of the Club will be held on January 

 8th, in the lecture room of the Young- Men's Christian Association 

 on O'Connor Street, when two most interesting papers, by Prof. 

 John Macoun, and Mr. James McEvoy, both of the Geological 

 Survey Department, will be delivered upon the Crow's Nest Pass. 

 The meeting will be opened punctually at 8 o'clock, and the audi- 

 ence is requested to be in time to take their seats before that 

 hour, so as not to disturb the lecturers and listeners after the 

 meeting has begun. On the same evening the Report of the 

 Botanical Branch will be read, which always elicits a lively dis- 

 cussion. Among other interesting- exhibits their will be on view 

 a beautiful collection of paintings of Manitoban plants, by Mr 

 Norman Criddle, of Aweme, Man. — Acting Editor. 



PAL/EONTOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Observations on and Descriptions of Arctic Fossils. By R. P. Whit- 

 field. Extracted from Bulletin of the Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Vol. 13, Article 2, pp. 19 — 22, Plates I and II. New York, 

 April, 6, 1900. 



The above is the title of an interesting paper by Prof. Whit- 

 field, the able palaeontologist of the Central Park Museum of 

 Natural History. In it he describes a few fossils new to science, 

 and records others of much interest, from collections sent to that 

 Museum by the Peary Arctic Club of New York. Some of these 

 were collected by the expedition of 1898 at " Cape Harrison, on 

 Princess M?rie Bay and Summit, Cape d'Urville, in the Arctic 

 Resrions," whilst others came from " near the head of Frobishtjr 

 Bay," and were obtained from Eskimos by G. Cromer, Esq., ot 

 Boston, who sent them to Prof. Franz Boas of the Amer. Mus. 



