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to be in many places the altered remains of olivine rock, not only con- 

 tain asbestns, the mineral of the day, which is not attacked by tire, but 

 that we will find them, in a close future, affording also the mineral 

 which the greatest heat and pressure of our laboratories could not yet 

 produce, the diamond. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Artificial Keys to the Genera and Species of Mosses in Les- 

 quereux and James's Manual of the Mosses of North America ; by 

 Charles R. Barnes; pp. 72; 1890. 



Under the above caption Prof. Barnes has published in the Trans- 

 actions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences (and also separately) a 

 most useful article. After the Ferns there is perhaps no order of plants 

 whice is more invariably admired by those who love nature than the 

 Mosses; their study, however, has been almost impossible owing to 

 the want of an intelligible work which could be used by a beginner. In 

 this way many who might have had their attention drawn to the study 

 of botany by these beautiful objects, have been lost to the science. For 

 botanists, unlike poets, need not be born botanists, but can be made by 

 accident or training. By the publication of Prof. Barnes's pamphlet a. 

 great obstacle to the study of mouses i^ removed, and we feel sure 

 that many of our members will now avail themselves of this opportunity. 

 This should be particularly the case with our local members, for we 

 have in Prof. Macoun, who is always courteous and willing to help 

 beginners, the highest Canadian authority upon mosses. The above 

 mentioned pamphlet is well printed, and sewed so as to open flat, and 

 can lie obtained through the editor for 50 cents a copy. J. F. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



Bethune, Rev. C. J. S , M.A., D.O.L. Ross, Niles G 



(Port Hope). Smith, Miss Ethel M. 



Campbell, A. M. (Perth, Out.) Smith, Miss Eloise. 



Deeks, W.E., II. A. Sutherland, Miss Christine P. 



Macfarlane, T., M.E.,F.R.S.C, Sutherland, J. (!. (Richmond, Q.) 



Meneilly, W. J . Topley, W. J. 

 Ripley, C. J. 



