1895.] Notes and News. 191 
injured. The inves capes scratched his initials upon a potato tuber 
= ‘he insects — wan urned the injured surface into a 
cab m rit 
,ina sim to haxter s well-known initial-mark 
test wid bacteria specs - wanes e dist akon of the gnats 
outside of West Virginia tas not yet ge ae ed. 
F. Cook is expected to return to this country in May from 
- rather extended African sojourn. Mr. Cook : in the employ of 
e American Colonization Societ , and his nominal duties are the 
turned to his frican duties in October, 1893, accompanied by Mrs. 
Cook. The last rainy season, ending in December, was spent in the 
Canary islands where he has als so made some collections 
PROFESSOR JOHN Macoun has published in Zrazs. Ro ‘oy. S0¢., Cai 
ada (Section IV, 1894) a paper on the forests of Canada and their dis- 
tribution, with notes on the more interesting species. He speaks very 
strongly of their plies: devastation, and gives many unhappy tie of 
this vandalism. e followi Sp regions are discussed separately: s 
arctic belt, Prince et rag sland, Nova Scotia and New Brun ewitk: 
Quebec, On ntario, Manitoba and the Northwest ‘Territories, srs 
Mountains and British Piethaae: Vancouver Island. Some very in- 
by the tundra of Alaska ak he Barren Grounds of the Dominion, and 
southerly with a varying border until it meets and intermingles with 
the poplar forests of the Northwest Territories, and eastwar d with the 
deciduous forests of Ontario, etc. He estimates this huge forest belt 
as See about a million oe 909i miles 
; th 
c name be retained ys ain iB the rule; G) that the year 1 
the i ng oth genera and ewan (4) th a 
while the principle of Mpsity shall be u 
eae a safe name shall 
n the naming of genera, a name w n ignored 3 least 
