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The Ottawa Naturalist. [April 



editorship of Dr. James Fletcher. The volume has several illus- 

 trations and many interesting- articles. Among the more im- 

 portant papers published this year are the following : 



Some Interesting Moths taken at Ottawa, by Arthur 



Gibson. 



Contributions to the Natural History of the Northwest Terri- 

 tories. The Birds of Southern Saskatchewan, by Eug. Coubeaux. 



Soils and the Maintenance of their Fertility through the 

 Growth of Legumes, by Frank T. Shutt. 



The Labrador Flying Squirrel, by J. D. Sornberger. 



The Two-lined Salamander, by Walter S. Odell. 



Notes on Rare Birds occasionally Breeding in Eastern On- 

 tario, by Rev. C. J. Young. 



Ornithology 'in several numbers), by W. T. Macoun. 



Additions to North American and European Bryology (Moss 

 Flora), by N. Conrad Kindberg. 



On the occurrence of a Species of Whittleseya in Nova Scotia, 

 by H. M. Ami. 



An Ornithological Incursion into Florida, by W. E. Saunders. 



A Condensed Summary of the Fieldwork annually accom- 

 plished by the Officers of the Geological Survey of Canada from 

 its commencement to 1865, by D. B. Dowling. 



Notes bearing on the Devono-Carboniferous Problem in 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by Dr. H. M. Ami. 



Fauna Ottawaensis, Diptera, by W. Hague Harrington. 



The Finding of a Flamingo's Nest, by W. E. Saunders. 



Dr. Nansen's Scientific Results, by Prof. E. E. Prince. 



Gannets and Cormorants, with special reference to Canadian 

 forms, by Andrew Halkett. 



Hemphillia glandulosa. by Geo. W. Taylor. 



Catalogue of the Recent Marine Sponges of Canada and 

 Alaska, by Lawrence M. Lambe. 



Description of a New Species of Unio from the Cretaceous 

 rocks ot the Nanaimo Coal Field, V.I., by Dr. J. F. Whiteaves. 



A Preliminary Note on the Amygdaloidal Trap Rock in the. 

 Eastern Townships of the Province of Quebec, by John A. 

 Dresser. 



The Nesting of the Cserulean Warbler, by W. E. Saunders. 



