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who has done more for Botany in America than any other living man, 

 to whose every word our Botanists eagerly listened ; or to Di-. Brewer, 

 author of part of the Botany of California. Dr. George Yasey, who 

 had promised, if possible, to pay Ottawa a visit, was, much to our 

 disappointment, detained in Washington by official business. Among 

 many other men of note who visited us on this occasion may yet be 

 mentioned, Dr. Rae, the Arctic explorer ; Prof. Dall, celebrated for his 

 researches in Alaska, and Profs. Newberry and Hall, the Geologists. 

 Those of us who were fortunate enough to attend the meeting in 

 Montreal might have met many more celebrities, as Dr. Sereno Watson, 

 the first authority on Botanical Nomenclature, and at the annual 

 meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, held at the same 

 time, might have listened to the experiences of, and consulted with, men 

 like Dr. Hagen, and Profs. Riley, Comstock, Mann, and Fernald, among 

 many others who rank among the first Entomologists of the day, and 

 whose names are almost as familiar in Europe as they are here. With 

 regard to the Forestry Congress, which was convened immediately 

 previous to the A.A.A.S., it would be impossible to mention anything 

 of greater importance to Canada than the subjects which were discussed 

 at its meetings, viz : the protection and preservation of the forests, 

 which have been the source of the greater part of her wealth. Judging 

 from the crowded meetings, and the enthusiastic utterances of the dele- 

 gates who attended from every direction, as well as from the vital 

 importance of the subject, which should only require to be brought 

 prominently before the public as it was at this time, we may confidently 

 hope that before long the working of this Society will be manifest from 

 one end of Canada to the other, and many of us here may yet live to 

 see the vast prairies of the North-West Territory covered with a 

 mantle of luxuriant foliage, as some people believe they formerly were. 



During a trip through a large tract of this country in September 

 last I paid special attention to this matter, and I see no reason what- 

 ever why many of our hardy trees should not flourish thei-e if the 

 seeds are sown and the young plants protected for a year or two by rows 

 of the indigenous willows which grow by every stream. I have sent 

 to a friend in Regina a supply of some of the seeds of this district, and 



