56 Proceedings. 
The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, B.A., read a paper entitled 
Ranpom Naturat History Nores AND ORSERVATIONS IN THE 
WESTERN HEMISPHERE. 
The random observations in the following paper were made 
between Sept. 9 and Oct. 16, 1897, in a journey to Canada 
in the ‘ Parisian’ to County Bagot, Quebec, down the St. Law- 
rence to Montreal, to Toronto, Niagara, Buffalo, Albany, New 
York, up to Newhaven and Boston, and back from N.Y. by 
the ‘Etruria.’ Sea temperature varied from 58° F. on the 
Irish Coast to 33° in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the 
Baffin’s Bay current flows down between the Gulf-Stream and 
the N. American coast. 
Among the birds noticed were Larus marinus (Great black- 
backed gull), Procellaria pelagica (Stormy petrel), Sterna 
fluviatilis (Common tern), Fulmarus glacialis (Fulmar petrel), 
Larus atricilla (larger than its English cousin L. ridibundus, 
which latter is not pelagic in its habits), Colymbus glacialis 
(Great northerv diver), Podilymbus podiceps (Pied-bill grebe). 
The last-named was frequently run over asleep by the ‘ Parisian,’ 
woke up in alarm, and settled down to rest again a few yards 
away. 
Balena musculus (Rorqual) occurred in the Gulf of St Law- 
rence Its “baleen,” though much shorter than that of the 
Greenland whale, is now sought for because of the scarcity of 
the latter (£3000 a ton). Schools of Porpoises also occurred 
in the same Gulf, and Delphinus delphis (ordinary Dolphin) 
500 miles off the coast of Ireland. The ‘ Etruria’ was steam- 
ing 20 knots an hour, but the dolphins easily kept up, and even 
passed ahead. Luminous meduse occurred at night in the 
Gulf between 8 and 10 P.M.; temperature of water, 23°. 
The colour of the waters of the St. Lawrence changed per- 
ceptibly to a pale green as we ascended. The banks and hills 
were beautified by the lakes and reds and scarlets of maple and 
sumach. Of Insecta, black crickets occur in the fields in 
millions. Their sound is very irritating, but they are good 
