Science: Canadian Ecology

From a crinkle in the Laurentian Mountains of eastern Quebec, which Princeton's Henry Van Dyke once described as "Nature with her teeth bare and her lips scarred," 30 naturalists last week returned by steamer to their homes in Canada and the U. S. They had spent a fortnight at a Canadian Biological Conference discussing and attempting to phrase the natural laws which govern the alternating plenitude and scarcity of wild life in Canada.

The conference took place at Matameck Factory, Copley Amory's manor on Moisie Bay, near the Labrador boundary. A rich Boston merchant...

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