1899] ^^^- Assoc. FOR Advanckmentof Science. 151 



The Butterfly Book at $3 a copy is a marvel of cheapness. 

 In 48 beautiful plates,coloured life-like photographs are given of 

 almost every butterfl}- in tlic United States and Canada and 

 with it a butterfly collector will hunt for many )-ears before he 

 finds a species which he cannot identity. Of course, even in a 

 large 8vo of 382 pages with 48 crowded plates there are some 

 things which might occur to one as desiderata, e.g. a few more 

 undersides, or rather longer descriptions of the species ; but let 

 such a one think for a moment what the author has gi\cn us, 

 and the almost nominal price at which we get it. The Ikitterfly 

 Book is a magnificent work, exquisitely printed and illustrated, 

 comprehensive and remarkablyfaccurate. It can hardly fail to 

 do for American bo}'s and girls what its much humbler 

 predecessor, Coleman's British Butterflies, has done for their 

 thousands of brothers and sisters in Great Britain, who have to 

 thank that little blue cloth i2mo of 175 pages with its 16 plates 

 for many hours of fascinating study, out door exercise and 

 innocent elevating amusement instead of much wasted time and 

 degrading useless inactivit}'. J. F. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE. 

 The forty-eighth meeting of this Association was held at 

 Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 21 -26th, last. 



The Canadians who attended it were Rev. Louis C. Wurtele 

 and T. Hunter Wurtele, of Actonvale, T. O., Mrs. .A. II. Moore 

 of Sawyerville, P. Q., Dr. \V. Saunders, (of the Experimental 

 Farm,)A. P. Saunders.F. A. Saunders, and J. F. Whiteaves (of the 

 Geological Survey Department), Ottawa. 



At the opening general meeting, the President, Dr. Edward 

 Orton, State Geologist, made the following graceful and kindly 

 reference to the Canadian visitors: 



No org.injzation ever visits an American city ihat has a better claim on ihe 

 appreciation and respect ol all its people. In the first place, you can hardly expect 

 to entertain an organization of larger range, so far at least as its name is concerned. 

 It is the Aineyjcaii Association. It transcends not only all state limits, but national 

 l)oundaries as well. An organization that represents the United States 



akes in a respectable part of the land areas of the planet ; but this- 



