266 The Ottawa Naturalist. [March 



•SECOND WINTER SOIREE, 1858-1899. 



The evening of Jan. loth, 1899, was wholly devoted to geology, 

 Prof. Prince, the President, was in the chair and there was a fair 

 attendance ot members. 



" Notes on an herbivorous Deinosaur from the Cretaceous of Western 



Canada." 



by Mr. Lawrence M. Latribe, was the first paper presented. In the 

 course of his remarks the lecturer pointed out the methods pursued in 

 obtaining the remains of these extinct giants from the stratified rocks of 

 the Red Deer River district in Alberta. The general results obtained 

 during the summers of 1897 and 1898 comprised portions of several 

 skeletons, representing four species of deinosaurs, three herbivorous and 

 one carnivorous. 



Jrachodon {Hadrosaurus) tnirabilis, Leidy, from the Canadian 

 Cretaceous was then described, giving the more salient features of the 

 great group of herbivorous-deinosaurs or reptiles to which it belongs. 

 The paper was copiously illustrated by specimens and diagrams. A 

 hearty vote of thanks, proposed by Dr Ami, seconded Mr, Walter R. 

 Billings, was unaminously tendered to Mr. Lambe for his excellent 

 paper. 



Dr. Ells then asked that his paper be taken as read. It is entitled : 

 "The Minerals of the Ottawa Valley." The paper is to be published 

 lished shortly in The Otiaiva Naturalist. Specimens of Minerals from 

 the Ottawa Valley were then exhibited and examined by members 

 present. 



The " Report of the Geological Branch," for 1893 — 1899 by the 

 Leaders, H. M. Ami, W. J. Wilson and R. W. Ells, was then submitted 

 to the meeting and taken as read : it will also appear in a forthcoming 

 number of the Naturalist. 



FOURTH WINTER SOIREE 1 898-1 899. 



The meeting was held on Tuesday, Feb. 7th, 1899, in the Y.M.C.A 

 Hall, Prof. E. E. Prince, President of the Club in the chair. 



I " Some native herbaceous perennials worthy of culti- 

 vation," was the theme upon which Mr. W. T. Macoun first spoke at 

 some length. After exhibiting an extensive series of flowering perennials 

 from various parts of Canada, giving notes on the results of experiments 

 made in cultivation upon them at the Central Experimental Farm, Mr. 

 Macoun referred to a number ol showy local species which he recom- 

 mended members of the Club to grow and observe. Plants belonging 

 to the genera Hepatica, Anemone, Sanguinaria, Thalictrum, Dicentra, 

 Trillium, Lobelia, Lilium, Gentiana, Aster, Sohdago, Cypripedium, and 

 many others worthy of cultivation. 



