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botanical student will here find much a series of lectures in Hotan)- and 

 to enrich his herbarium, it is stated Geology, ten on each subject. We 

 that as many as 500 species have believe this is the true way to study 

 been identified, a list of which has these sciences, viz : — beginning with 

 been compiled and published. No the objects themselves, and graduallj* 

 wonder the iilea occurred to Prof, proceeding toward the technical and 

 Panton, of the Ontario Agricultural the abstract. The contrast was very 

 College, that here would be an admir- marked with the university mode of 

 able point at which to gather a band years ago, when we waded through 

 of students for practical instruction books and took notes of lectures upon 

 in the sciences of Botany and Geology these subjects, committing whole 

 during the summer vacation. We pages of technical names, and of 

 met him on the afternoon of Tuesday, classifications, without so much as 

 the 23rd of July, leading a band of ever seeing the objects themselves, 

 twenty-six ladies and gentlemen, for In our ramble along the river 



an excursion along the river margin margin we found a beautiful speci- 

 in search of specimens for analysing, men of Campanula Americana, the 



tall Bell-flower, in full bloom, and 

 also the coarse growing Polymnia 

 Canadensis or Leaf Cup, which is 

 onl}- known to occur here. But 

 tlie richest returns were found in 

 the walk to the 



DUFFERIN ISLANDS 



than which a more attractive re- 

 sort for the lover of Nature can 

 not well be imagined. " Riverside 

 Ramble;" " Lovers' Walk "; " Lov- 

 ers' Retreat," etc., are names sugges- 

 cach one with his cojiy of Spotton's tive enough of romantic retirement ; 

 Botany, and many of them provided and the realit)' is no disappointment, 

 with tin boxes slung from the shoulder Amid the dense forest growth 

 for the better preservation of the through which these walks are laid 

 plants. Many of the students were out, leading the rambler across rustic 

 teachers preparing in this way for bridges, along streams and brooks, 

 more thorough work in their own lined with ferns and wild shrubs of 

 schools. We followed the peripa- many species, numerous fine speci- 

 tetic Professor on an excursion along mens were found. Daphne ineze- 

 the margin of the river, listening to renin was there in abundance, with 

 his practical method of teaching ; its load of red berries, as also was 

 and on the following morning at- Actaea spicata, with similar fruit, 

 tended two of his morning lectures, known commonly as the Baneberry. 

 The course, it seems, extends over a Onoclea sensibilis or the Sensitive 

 period of two weeks, and consists of fern, grows abundantly in wet places 



Fig. 63 — The Princii'al Entkanxe, 



