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(2) Public Lecture: Dr. J. M. Clarke, State Geologist, of 
Albany, N.Y. Subject : ‘‘The Conservation of Niagara Falls.” 
In the Assembly Hall of the Normal School, Lisgar street. 
(3) Annual Dinner of the Society, Russell House, followed by 
a Reception, when Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess Grey 
and other citizens will be present. 
EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF THE LATE ROBT 
BEEIOU:: 
The whole of the life of this lovable naturalist was lived three 
miles east of Bryanston, near the banks of the Thames River. 
For him every occurrence in nature had its interest, and his 
acquaintance with the different branches of Natural History was 
that of the thorough student, no person in his district being so 
well acquainted with so many branches of Natural History as he. 
His death at the early age of 44 was a great loss to his friends 
rather than to the public, as he could seldom be induced to write 
anything upon Natural History for publication, always demurring 
on the ground that his knowledge of the subject proposed was 
too limited. 
Some of his many poems Lave been published in local papers, 
such as the Farmers’ Advocate and the London Free Press, and 
after his death a small volume of selected verses was printed in 
London. His health was never robust and the pressure of other 
duties often prevented him from keeping up his Natural History 
studies and notes as thoroughly as he might otherwise have done, 
but there is much of great interest in his diaries, relating mostly 
to Botany and Ornithology, though also touching on almost all 
the other branches of Natural Science. These notes are now in 
the hands of Mr. W. E. Saunders of London under whose selec- 
tion portions of them are to be published in the columns of the 
Ottawa NATURALIST. 
April 3, 1887. Heard the first Hyla. Saw Towhee (for the 
first) two males. Yesterday (Sunday) was a typical spring day, 
the sun shining—the snow rapidly melting—a soft south wind 
