JANUARY, 1899. 



vol- XII, No. 10. 



THE 



OTTAWA 



NATURALIST. 



Published by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 



CONTENTS. 



Pash. 



1. Notes on Some Ottawa Violets, by James Melville 

 Macoun, Assistant Naturalist, Geological Survey of Canada .... l8l 



2. Report of the Botanical Section, O.F.N. C, for 1898, by 

 the Leaders .... .... .... .... .... .... 187 



3. Ornithological Notes — i. An Albino Eave Swallow, by Geo. 

 R. White, Ottawa ; 2. White-Throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albi- 

 collis) ; 3. Robin {Merula Migrator ia) ; Edited by W. T. Macoun 189 



4 Bermuda : Life beneath the Waters, by H. B. Small, Ottawa 191 



5. The Geological Society of America : New York Meet- 

 ing, December, 1898, by the Editor 194 



6. Notes, Reviews and Comments — Elementary Botany, by 

 Geo. F. Atkinson, Ph. B. (J.C.) ; Contributions to Canadian 

 Palseontoloey, Vol. i, Part V, No. 7. On Devonian Fossils from 

 Ontario, by J. F. Whiteaves, (H.M.A.) .... .... .... 200 



7. Obituary — The late Dr. H. A, Nicholson, of St. Andrew's Aber- 

 deen, by H. M. Ami .... .... .... .... .... 204 



RlfeE No. 4— O.F.N.C. Feb. 7th,' 1899, Y.M.C.A. Lecture Hall. 



:. Paper by W. T. Macoun, Esq., on "NATIVE HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS." 

 W. S. Odell, Esq., on "FRESH-WATER POLYZOA." 

 H. M. Ami, on " BURROWING HABITS OF THE CRAYFISH.' 



OTTAWA, CANADA. 



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