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March 28 — Populus trichocarpa, T. and G, 

 30 — Nemophila pustulata, Eastw. 

 Fragaria bracteosa, Heller. 

 " 31 — Claytonia perfoliata, Don., var. depressa, Gray. 

 Acer Douglasii, Hook. 

 Rubus macropetalus, Dougl. 

 Populus vancouverensis, Trel. 

 Equisetum Telmateia, Ehrh. 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



Check List of the Fishes of the Dominion of Canada and 

 Newfoundland. — By Andrew Halkett, Naturalist, Dept. 

 Marine and Fisheries. C H. Parmalee, King's Printer, 

 Ottawa, 1913. 



A sumptuous quarto volume in grey art cloth and gold, 

 bearing the above title, has been issued from the Fisheries, 

 Museum, O'Connor Street, under the Marine Department. It 

 consists of 138 pages of text, introduction, and indexes, witji 

 fourteen heliot3q5e plates of a costly character. The author, 

 it will be recalled, is a former President of the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club, and is engaged in the Fisheries' Museum, and, 

 as stated in the introduction, his object has been to supply a 

 complete list of the fishes of Canada. Such lists as that of the 

 Fresh- Water Fishes of Canada, printed in Montreal in 1864 for 

 the author, Mr. H. Beaumont Small, a former active member of 

 the Ottawa Club, and the excellent little volume by Mr. C. W. 

 Nash, a check list of the fishes of Ontario, issued in 1908, are 

 the only existing lists, apart from some New Brunswick, British 

 Columbia and Manitoba lists, which cover the fresh-water soecies, 

 while the lists of Kendall, Eigenmann, and, above all, of Jordan 

 and Evermann, include marine fishes, but do not profess to 

 treat specially of Canadian species, excepting Kendall's Labrador 

 list. Mr. Halkett has drawn upon these authorities freely, and 

 as the printer has excelled himself, the paper is thick plate paper 

 with wide margins, and as the plates are costly heliotype 

 reproductions, the result is a very striking publication. The 

 value of such a check list, however, is not in plates or costly 

 paper, but in completeness of matter, handv form and size, and 

 compact description and arrangement. In these respects the 



