1870.] HARRIXQTOX — BOTANY OF HASTINGS. 310 



Campanula apariniodes, Goodyera pubesceus, and 



Clematis Tirginiana, Lycopodium complanatum. 



Kosa Carolina, 



Wliiie spending a few days on and about the Froutenac Koad, 

 near the Mississippi River, we found the following plants: — 



Lobelia inflata, Eupatorium a«:eratoides, 



ardirlali^•, Solidago Cauadensi;-;, 



Mimulus ringeu?!, altissiraa, 



.Scutellaria lateriflora, Agrimonia Eupatoria, and 



Lycopus Europrcn^!, Asclepias inearnata. 



Such, then, is an imperfect account of the plants collected from 

 tlic middle of June until the latter part of August, in a small 

 portion of our Laurentian country. The lists were not intended 

 for publication, but w^re kept merely for private gratification, 

 otherwise they might and would have been more complete. Bein^- 

 fully aware of their imperfection, I have only been persuaded to 

 publish them in the hope that they may be of some small service 

 to those who are studying the distribution of plants in Canada. 



MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 

 Held at Liverpool ui Septcmher, 1870. 



THE president's address. 



My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — It lias long been the 

 custom for the newly-installed President of the British Association 

 ibr the advancement of Science to take advantage of the elevation 

 of the position in which the suffrages of his colleagues had, for the 

 time, placed him, and casting his eyes around the horizon of the 

 scientific world, to report to them what could be seen from his 

 watch-tower; in what directions the multitudinous divisions of the 

 noble army of the improvers of natural knowledge were marchinf-- ; 

 what important strongholds of the great enemy of us all. Ignorance, 

 had been recently captured ; and, also, with due impartiality, to 

 mark where the advanced posts of science had been driven in, or 

 a long-continued siege had made no progress. 



I propose to endeavour to follow this ancient precedent, in a 

 manner suited to the limitations of my knowledge and of my 



