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grown has been cultivated at the Experimental Farm and has 

 gradually reverted towards the typical form ; the only variation 

 last year being a narrow green stripe down the middle of each 

 petal. A photograph of this Trillium was exhibited by Dr. 

 Fletcher, and specimens and photographs of monstrous Trillia 

 from other parts of Ontario were shown by the Curator of the 

 herbarium of the Geological Survey. 



NOTES, REVIEWS AND COMMENTS. 



Transactions of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, 

 No. I. Press of E. J. Reynolds, 127 Sparks Street, Ottawa, 

 1898. This volume of 87 pages contains, besides a brief 

 introductory and historical sketch of the society by the 

 president, the following papers : 



The Name of Ottawa, by B. Suite, pp. 21-23 ; The Violinist, 

 by Archibald Lampman, pp. 24-26 ; Place Names of Canada, by 

 George Johnson, F.S.S., Dominion Statistician, pp. 27-62 ; The 

 Fur-Seal of the North Pacific, by James Melville Macoun, Esq., 

 Assistant Naturalist to the Geological Survey of Canada, pp. 

 63-74 ; " The Yukon and its Gold Resources'' by William Ogilvie, 

 Esq., D.L.S., &c., &., pp. 75-78, together with a Meteorological 

 Chart Record for 1887—88, 1895, 1896 and 1897 (Partim). 

 " Utilisation of Moss Land," by Thomas MacFarlane, F.R.S.C. 

 pp. 79-87. 



The above papers are all of interest and value. As in former 

 years, the members of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society 

 who read papers in Ottawa or elsewhere are invited to publish 

 them in The Ottawa Naturalist. 



