Vancouver, Oct. 9 In one of the latter are the Zoology offices and "laboratories." Dr. J. McLean Fraser was very pleasant, as also a Dr. Spencer. I did not see Miss Gertrude Smith, formerly at U.C., now an Assistant Professor here. The laboratories are large and well-lighted, but the equipment is meager. A bit of gossip I was told was that, down at the University of Washington in Seattle, every professor had been notified (unofficially but nevertheless emphatically) that he must publish at least 2 scientific or professional papers per year — this to maintain the research standing of the university. At Point Gray Beach, we stopped to see 10 or 15 Northwest Crows foraging lawely about the picnic grounds close to the sandy shore. Elsewhere along the route saw fully 25 Robins (of course caurinus) in flight over the suburban territory. There happened to be going west; there are stretches of both deciduous and evergreen woods at toward Point Grey. Saw a Rusty Fly Sparrow at the road-side.