122 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



skiving much trouble in the garden. I also noticed that the plant 

 is spreading rapidly and from its bright-green colour is becoming 

 conspicuous along the fore-shore of the lake. The level of the 

 garden is only slightly higher than that of the lake, and the soil 

 is consequently very moist. 



Although Manitoba House is so much farther North than 

 Winnipeg, some plants, such as tomatoes, can be grown there 

 with more certainty of a paying crop than at Winnipeg. 



In addition to the Chickweed. I noticed that some other 

 weeds were spreading and becoming abundant along the shores 

 of Lake Manitoba and to some distance back into the adjacent 

 woods. The most noticeable of these intruders were the so-called 

 " Canada Thistle " and the Russian Pigweed {Axyris aviaran- 

 toides, L.) I have been watching the spread of this latter plant 

 for some years with much interest, as I fear it is going to i)rove 

 a serious pest upon Manitoban farms. It is a tall, coarse-growing> 

 very leafy annual and is most aggresive in choking out all other 

 plants among which it grows. It matures large quantities of 

 seeds and has spread rapidly through the province during the last 

 ten years. The dead stems of this plant are particularly hard 

 and rigid, making them difficult to clear, and also giving trouble 

 around buildings by catching snow and ciusing drifts. 



W. y\. BuRMAxN, Winnipeg- 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON, ENGLAND. 



At the June meeting of the Royal Society, London, Eng., 

 one of our members, Robert Bell, M.D., LL.D., B. A.Sc, F.R.S.C. 

 was duly elected a Fellow of that distinguished body. Dr. Bell's 

 certificate as a candidate for F.R.S. states that he is one of the 

 the Assistant Directors of the Geological Survey of Canada- 

 Has been actively engaged in the field-work of the Survey for 

 forty years. Was concurrently Professor of chemistry and 

 geology of Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., for five sessions* 



