PROCEEDINGS FOR 1896 LXXIII 



The club's excursions are always attended by the leaders of the 

 several branches. These «••entlenien have rendered ijreat assistance in the 

 identification and classification of specimens collected during the day and 

 by their addresses, given before the return home, on the special features 

 of the district visited. 



The Offaira JVatvralisf 



has appeared regularly throughout the past year. It has been vxnder the 

 able editorship of Dr. Henry M. Ami,- assisted by a staff of associate 

 editors. Several improvements have recently been inade in the appear- 

 ance of the " Naturalist," which have commended themselves to all our 

 readers. It is now one of the most presentable magazines on natural 

 history published in Canada. The volume for 1895-06 comprises 272 

 pages, some of the chief contributions that there appear being as follows : 



In Zoology. 



" Cilia," by Prof. E. E. Prince, B.A., E.L.S., etc., Dominion Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries ; " Colourless Blood in Animals," by the same author ; 

 " A Morning Among Moose," by the same author ; " Hunting the Barren 

 G-round Caribou," by Frank Eussell ; " Phyllopods from Ottawa," by 

 Andrew Halkett ; notes on " The Bushy-tailed Wood-rat," by C. de Blois 

 Green ; notes on '' Canadian Shrews," by Dr. C. Hart Merriam. 



/// Botany. 



" The Flora of Ontario," by Prof. Macoun, M.A., F.L.S., etc. ; " List 

 of ISTative Trees and Shrubs at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa," 

 by Wm. T. Macoun ; " Notes on the Study of Botany," by Dr. T. J. W. 

 Burgess, F.R.S.C, etc., etc. ; " On Rare Manitoban Plants," by James 

 Fletcher, LL.D., F.E.S.C. 



Ill Ornithology. 



" Winter Birds," by A. G. Kingston ; " A Well Marked Bird 

 Wave," by the same author ; "A New Bird for Eastern Ontario," by the 

 same author ; " Town Birds,'" by W. A, D. Lees ; " Observations on Bird 

 Life at Pictou, N.S., " by W. A. Hickman ; "Keen Sight of Birds" and 

 "Blue Bird and Dickcissel," by W. E. Saunders. 



In Geology, Including 2Iineralogy and Petrography. 



" How Eocks are Formed," by Dr. E. W. Ells, LL.D., F.E.S.C, etc. ; 

 " Notes on the Stratigraphy of the Cambro-Silurian Eocks of Eastern 

 Manitoba," by D. B. Dowling, B.A.Sc. ; " Fossil hisects from the Leda 

 Clays of Ottawa and Vicinity," by Dr. H. M. Ami,M.A., F.G.S. ; " Notes 

 on Some Fossils from the Trenton of Highgate Springs," by the same 



