198 The American Geologist. March, 190I. 
Tribute to Victoria. At a postponed meeting of the Ot- 
tawa Field Naturalists' Club held on the 29th day of January, 
1901, one week after the death of Her Majesty Queen Vic- 
toria, the following resolution was unanimously passed : "In 
common with all the sorrowing subjects of His Imperial Ma- 
jesty King Edward VII. the members of the Ottawa Field- 
Naturalists' Club desire to express their deep sense of sorrow 
and loss at the demise of their beloved Sovereign Lady, Queen 
\'ictoria, during whose glorious reign of sixty-four years, 
scientific work and research, such as our Club aims to accom- 
plish, have received unprecedented impetus." At the last meet- 
ing of the same Club, held on Tuesday, Feb. 12th, Dr. R. W. 
Ells read his paper entitled, "Ancient Channels of the Ottawa 
River." 
The Technical Staff of the Canadian Geological Sur- 
vey is being rapidly depleted. Amongst those who have re- 
signed are : Dr. A. C. Lawson, Dr. F. D. Adams, and Messrs. 
Eugene Coste, E. B. Kenrick, W. P. Ferrier, A. J. Cole, J. B. 
Tyrrell and A. P. Low. 
Dr. Otto Kuntze is undertaking to supply a series of 
typical Monticuliporoidea in thin sections with specimens to 
those who may desire to purchase them. Whether these fossils 
are Bryozoa or are corals may be left for specialists to decide. 
The materials offered by Dr. Kuntze will in either case be of 
great value as an aid to the study of monticuliporoids. 
Mr. a. p. Low, of the Geological Survey of Canada, it is 
understood has accepted a lucrative position in connection with 
one of the Nova Scotia trusts. Mr. Low has been regularly em- 
ployed on the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada sincp 
1882 and was last year appointed one of the Commissioners for 
Canada at the Paris Exposition. 
Mr. R. D. Lacoe, a well-known geologist and collector 
of Carboniferous fossil plants, of Pittston, Pa., died Feb. 5, 
1901. 
Billings Memorial Portrait. A fine oil portrait by 
Moss, R. C. A., of the late Elkanah Billings, was recently 
presented to the director of the Geological Survey of Canada 
and can now be seen adorning the wall of the stairway in the 
front hall leadmg to the museum of the survey, on Sussex 
street, Ottawa. The portrait was presented by a committee of 
the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, who acted on behalf of 
the subscribers to the Billings' memorial portrait fund, and 
the following inscription accompanies the portrait : 
Elkanah Billings, Esq.. F. G. S. 
Palaeontologist from 1856 to 1876. 
Presented to the Geological Survey of Canada by a Committee 
of the Ottawa Field-Xaturalists' Club, Dec. nth, 1900, on 
behalf of his friends and admirers. 
