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being aopreciated and made use of by the large number of specialists in 

 the United States. 



His Excellency the Governor of Jamaica, Sir Henry A. Blake, and 

 Lady Blake, have received so many promises of help from eminent 

 Biologists in Britain and elsewhere that they are sanguine as to the 

 feasibility and great value of such a station, which is to be international 

 in its objects. The Hon. Adam Brown with his characteristic energy 

 in patronizing and helping measures tending towards scientific advance- 

 ment is corresponding with the leading students in Canada asking for 

 their co-operation in forwarding this important project which has our 

 fullest sympathy. 



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BOOK NOTICES. 



The Month is the title of a neat little monthly magazine which 

 has been sent to us by the editor, Rev. A. Dontenville, O.M I., who is 

 now living in New Westminster and is presiding over St. Louis College. 

 The Month is an attractive liitle magazine, well printed and well ed ted, 

 and we feel sure will be well patronized. Father Dontenville who was 

 a frequent attendant at our botanical and entomological lectures when 

 in Ottawa, is well known to many of our members; and we wish him 

 every happiness and success in his new home and hope to see in the 

 pages of the Month some papers upon the natural history subjects 

 which he made so attractive to his students when teaching at the 

 Ottawa University. 



Entomological Society of Ontario. — Twenty-second annual 

 report. The last annual report of this flourishing and useful society has 

 just come to hand. It is one of the most valuable from the standpoint 

 of the agriculturalist and fruit-grower which the society has ever issued. 



The annual address of the president, the Rev. Dr. Bethune of Port 

 Hope is full of useful information. Notice is first taken of the various 

 injurious insects which have been most troublesome throughout the 

 Province during the year and the best remedies are suggested for each 

 in turn. The reports of the London sections and the Montreal branch 

 show that the work is being pushed vigorously and that good results are 

 being obtained. A subject which is being studied by the ornithological 



