The Editor of this Journal is responsible only for such communications as bear his name or initials.

Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, by DAWSON BROTHERS, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

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Annual Address of the President of the Natural History Society of Montreal,

Principal DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S., May, 1872..

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Notes on some Results of the Solar Eclipse of December, 1871. By G. F.

ARMSTRONG, M.A., C.E.

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Impressions of Cuba. By G. F. MATTHEW, F.G.S..

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Geological Features of Huron County, Ontario. By JOHN GIBSON, B.A.......

Notes on the Marine Clays occurring at the Railway Cutting on the left Bank

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of the Tattagouche River. By Rev. C. H. PAISLEY, M.A...

Epizootic Influenza in Horses. By D. McEACHRAN, V.S.

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Impressions and Footprints of Aquatic Animals, and Imitative Markings on

Carboniferous Rocks. By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S.

Notes on a Deep-Sea Dredging Expedition round the Island of Anticosti in

the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By J. F. WHITEAVES, F.G.S.

On the Geological Relations of the Iron Ores of Nova Scotia. By J. W. DAW-

SON, LL.D., F.R.S...

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Descriptions of New Fossils from the Devonian Rocks of Western Ontario.

By H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, F.R.S.

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Notes on Prototaxites.....

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Notes on a Journey through the North-West Territory, from Manitoba to

Rocky Mountain House. By A. R. C. SELWYN, F.G.S.....

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Botanical and Geological Notes. By A. T. DRUMMOND, B.A., LL.B.,

Occurrence of Gigantic Cuttle Fishes on the Coast of Newfoundland. By A.

E. VERRILL.......

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On some new or little known Fossils from the Silurian and Devonian Rocks

of Ontario. By E. BILLINGS, F.G.S..

The Lignite Formations of the West. By GEORGE M. DAWSON, Assoc. R.S.M. 241

Notes on the Occurrence of Foraminifera, Coccoliths, &c., in the Cretaceous

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Rocks of Manitoba. By GEORGE M. DAWSON, Assoc. R. S. M......

On Recent Deep-Sea Dredging Operations in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By

J. F. WHITEAVES, F.G.S...

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On the Post-Pliocene Formation near Bathurst, New Brunswick. By Rev.

C. H. PAISLEY, M.A..

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Two new Fossil Cockroaches from the Carboniferous of Cape Breton. By

SAMUEL H. SCUDDER..

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On some new Genera and Species of Palæozoic Mollusca. By E. BILLINGS.. 301

Notes on Dawsonite, a new Carbonate. By B. J. HARRINGTON, B.A., Ph.D.. 305

The Fluctuations of the American Lakes, and the Development of Sun-spots.

By G. M. DAWSON, Assoc. R.S.M...

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