CXXIV THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Fall Series: 



Sept. 20— Billings Bridge. 



27 — Experimental Farm. 

 Oct. 14 — Beaver Meadow. 



Preservation of Bird Life. 



On February 10th, Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, at a public meeting 

 of the Club, outlined a scheme for the establishment of two bird 

 sanctuaries for the Ottawa district, one at Rockcliffe and the other at 

 the Central Experimental Farm. At the former it was decided to 

 put out 250 nesting boxes, and at the latter 160. (See Ottawa Natural- 

 ist, March, 1914). 



The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Under the editorship of Mr. Arthur Gibson, the Club completed 

 Volume XXVII of its official organ, the Ottawa Naturalist. Ten 

 numbers were issued (two of which were double numbers) comprising 

 180 pages in addition to which there were 23 plates. The following 

 are some of the chief papers which appeared in the volume : — 



Notes on the Occurrence of Interesting Forms of Cyperaceae in 



Quebec, by Bro. Victorin, Longueuil, Que. 

 Preliminary List of Ottawa Sphaeriidae, by F. R. Latchford. 

 The Manus in a Specimen of Trachodon from the Edmonton 



Formation of Alberta, by L. M. Lambe. 

 The Shade Trees of Ottawa, by Ê. H. Blackader. 

 Useful Wild Plants of Canada, by J. W. Eastham. 

 Description of a New Species of Testudo, and of a Remarkable 



specimen of Stylemys nebrascensis from the Oligocène of 



Wyoming, U.S.A., by L. M. Lambe. 

 The Broad-striped Skunk, by Norman and Stuart Criddle. 

 Does the Type of Protopalaeaster narrawayi Present an Oral 



or Aboral Aspect, by G. H. Hudson. 

 The Haunts of Some of Our Native Ferns, by. A. Cosens. 

 On the Genera of the Eodiscidae, by P. E. Raymond. 

 A New Genus and Species of Ceratopsia from the Belly River 



Formation of Alberta, by L. M. Lambe. 

 New and otherwise Interesting Lichens from Vancouver Island 



and the Rocky Mountains, by G. K. Merrill. 

 Some Rare Cases of Albinism in Animals, by E. E. Prince. 

 On the Fore-limb of a Carnivorous Dinosaur from the Belly 



River Formation of Alberta, and a New Genus of Cera- 



