On Fur-bearing Animals* 5 



Thus I have endeavoured to place before you a sketch of one 

 of the denizens of our Tennessee woods, and if my effort has at 

 all interested you, it will give me pleasure to repeat it should you 

 call on me on another occasion. 



[Prof. Williamson, in remarking upon the above paper, stated 

 to the meeting that he had not observed the Cornus florida in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of Kingston, but he had seen it in 

 the Niaojara district. 



Prof. Lawson exhibited specimens of the plant from various 

 parts of the United States, and alluded to its wide range, but ap- 

 parently southern tendency. It is no doubt correctly regarded 

 as a Canadian species ; but it is absent from Prof. Barnston's list 

 of the Holmes' herbarium, Montreal; from Mr. Billino-s' list of 

 Prescott plants, and other accessible local lists, as well as from 

 the various collections made in the neighbourhood of Kingston. 

 It is not difficult to trace the distribution of so showy a plant, 

 and it is to be hoped that Prof. Blackie's remarks will lead to the 

 publication of Canadian localities.] 



ARTICLE II. — A popular Treatise on the Fur-hearing Ani- 

 mals of the Mackenzie River District. By Bernard Rogan 

 Ross, C. T. 



[Presented to the Natural History Society of Montreal.} 

 In submitting the following Treatise to the notice of the Natu- 

 ral History Society of Montreal, I will, previously to entering on 

 my subject, mark out the extent of country to which only, my 

 remarks apply. 



A residence of thirteen years in this District, during the great- 

 est part of which time I have been a not unsuccessful trapper, has 

 afforded me many opportunities of observation upon the nature 

 and habits of the various fur-bearing animals inhabiting these 

 high northern latitudes. I have throughout studied accuracy 

 rather than effect, and the style of my remarks is doubtless rather 

 popular than scientific ; yet the hope that my humble endeavours 

 may perchance clear one doubtful point, or illustrate some new 

 truth has lightened my labour, and will, if such should in reality 

 happen, prove an ample recompense for my toil. 



The boundaries of the Mackenzie River District may be con- 

 sidered to extend from Salt River, a tributary of the Slave to the 

 Arctic Sea, and from 100° W. long, to the Rocky Mountains. 



