THE

CANADIAN NATURALIST

AND

Quarterly Journal of Science.

WITH THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
OF MONTREAL:

B. J. HARRINGTON, B. A., Pí. D., EDITOR.

DAWSON BROTHERS, Nos. 159 AND 161 ST. JAMES STREET.

1881.

The Editors of this Journal are responsible only for such communications as bear their names or initials.

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

CONTENTS.

Remarks on recent papers on the Geology of Nova Scotia. By J. W. Dawson,

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

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The Stratigraphy of the Quebec Group and the older Crystalline Rocks of

Canada. By Alfred R. C. Selwyn, F.R,S., F.G.S.....

Notes on the Glaciation of British Columbia. By George M. Dawson, D.S.,

As. R.S.M... . . . . . .

On some points in Lithology. By Prof. James D. Dana

Notes on Canadian Ferns. By John B. Goode

Notes on Elephant remains from Washington Territory. By J. T. Donald,

B.A.

Natural History Society proceedings..

The Mound Builders of the West

Traces of an early race in Japan

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A gigantic Conularia of the Niagara group of Hamilton, Ont...

Development of Filaria sanguinis hominis, and the Mosquito considered as a

nurse

On the origin of some American Indian tribes. By Rev. John Campbell,

M.A..

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On some points in Lithology. By Prof. James D. Dana...

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Remarks on Canadian Stratigraphy. By Thomas Macfarlane

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A Canadian Pterygotus. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D, F.R.S.

103

Möbius on Eozöon Canadense. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S.

105

On the water supply of Montreal and its suburbs. By J. Baker Edwards,

Ph.D.. D.C.L.. F.C.S....

116

Natural History Society proceedings.

124

Some remarks on Inter-glacial epochs In reference to fauna and flora exist-

ing at the present day in the Northern hemisphere. By H. W. Fielden,

F.G.S..

126

The Rocky Mountain Locust..

128

Sketches of the past and present condition of the Indians of Canada. By

George M. Dawson, D.S., As. R.S.M

129

Some observations on the Menobranchus maculatus. By Henry Montgomery,

M.A.

160

Natural History Society proceedings...

164

Extract from the proceedings of the London Geological Society..

Pre-glacial formation of the beds of the great American lakes. By Prof. E.

On the origin of some American Indian tribes. By Rev. John Campbell,

M.A.........

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W. Claypole, B.A., B.Sc

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