I50 "- The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Lycium vulgarc. Shrubs of this species planted in the arboretunn 

 last spring fruited this season, though sparingly. 



Many trees and shrubs in the arboretum are too young yet 

 to fruit well, but several more species recently planted should 

 make the arboretum attractive at this season, next year. 



The bark'of several species of Dog-wood {C.alba; C. alba 

 si!>irii\:, C. s iNg'iiiiica , C. stolonifera) has now assumed that 

 bright red colour peculiar to these species during the winter 

 months which ' makes them ornamental at that season of the 

 year. A variety of Corims stolonifera with yellow bark obtained 

 from the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, is very interesting. 



The bark of the willows also has now its winter colouring ; 

 that of the species know d.5 Salix /^'^crc/zt'i-/^ being particularly 

 bright and ornamental. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Wachsmutii, Palfeontolngist — Fellow, uf the Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sc, 

 of the Geol. Soc. of America and of the Iowa Academy of Science ; a corresponding 

 member of numerous domestic and foreign societies, died at Burlington, Iowa, Feb. 

 7th, 1896. He was born in Hanover, Germany, Sept. 13th, 1829. He came to 

 America in 1852 and after iSSi, devoted his attention to fossil .remains and especially 

 crinoids, in which group he was soon the recognised authority. Together with Frank 

 .Springer, ?. young lawyer at Burlington, they obtained a vast amount of fine material 

 and gave the world the benefit of their researches which culminated in the handsome 

 " Monograph of the Crinoidea Camerata of North America," published by the 

 " Museum of Comparative Zoology," containing 800 pages and an atlas of 83 plates 

 comprising upwards of 1500 illustrations, 1895. For a list of his principal scientific 

 works the reader is refered. to the American Geologist, p. 136, Vol. XVTI, No. 3, 

 March, 1896. Canada and Canadian students in Palaocrinoidea owe a great deal to 

 the late Charles Wachsmuth, for the valuable notes and critical information 

 received from time to time. • He will be greatly regretted by a large circle of friends 

 and acquaintances as well as by a large number who know him only by Kis "good 

 works." — H. M. A. 



