﻿314 Canadian Record of Science. 



Field Day to Riviere Rouge. 



Notwithstanding the fact that the official weather 

 prophets had predicted that Saturday would be somewhat 

 cold, with local showers, which is their modest way 

 of describing a rainy, cheerless day, about a hundred and 

 seventy-live persons boarded the special train at Windsor 

 street station that had been engaged to convey the 

 members of the Natural History Society to Kiver Eouge 

 for their annual field day. The number would have 

 undoubtedly been greater had not the general opinion 

 been that the weather would prove unfavorable for the 

 occasion, but for those who participated in the excursion 

 the decreased number was rather a benefit than otherwise, 

 as there was no crowding on the cars, which rendered the 

 run out and back all the more enjoyable. 



The special train left the city about nine o'clock, and 

 although the sky was at that time clouded over, Montreal 

 island had scarcely been left behind before the clouds had 

 all broken up and there appeared every prospect of a fine 

 day. The run of sixty-two miles was made in two hours 

 and a half, the comparatively long time being easily 

 explained by the fact that it was a single-track road, 

 which was pretty busy all day ; consequently rather long 

 waits had to be made at some of the stations, although 

 good time was made when actually running. 



Prof. Frank D. Adams, the President of the Society, 

 was unavoidably absent, so the party was, while on the 

 train, in charge of Mr. John S. SheareT, the Pirst Vice- 

 President, the Secretary of the Excursion Committee, Mr. 

 J. Stevenson Brown, assuming direction on arrival at 

 Eiver Eouge. Eiver Eouge is a lumbering settlement 

 belonging to the Hon. J. K. Ward, at the mouth of 

 the river of that name, where it enters the Ottawa, just a 

 couple of miles north-west of Calumet station. From the 

 railway to the Ottawa river, about a quarter of a mile to 



