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

1872.

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

CORRESPONDING EDITORS.

HALIFAX, N. S.-PROF. G. LAWSON, Ph. D., LL.D.

ST. JOHNS, N.B.-G. F. MATTHEW, F.G.S.: LONDON, Ont.-W. SAUNDERS.

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

CONTENTS.

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

The Origin of Species

On a new Fossil Crustacean from the Devonian Rocks of Canada. By HENRY

WOODWARD, F.G.S., F.Z.S..

The Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada.

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43

On the Physiography and Geology of the Island of Grand Manan. By Prof.

L. W. BAILEY..........

On the Oil-bearing Limestone of Chicago. By T. STERRY HUNT, LL.D., F.R.S. 54

Geological Survey of Canada

On the Surface Geology of New Brunswick. By G. F. MATTHEW...

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89

On the Food and Habits of some of our Marine Fishes. By Prof. A. E.VERRILL 107

Abstract of Proceedings of the British Association at Edinburgh, in 1871..... 129

The Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada. Part 2. By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D.. 166

On the "Colonies" of M. Barrande. By Prof. H. A. NICHOLSON, M.D................. 188

The Whale of the St. Lawrence. By Dr. J. W. ANDERSON..

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Notes on the Primordial Rocks in the vicinity of Troy, N. Y. By S. W. FORD 209

On some new species of Palæozoic Fossils. By E. BILLINGS, F.G.S........ 213

The Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada. By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D..

241

On the Origin and Classification of Original or Crystalline Rocks. By THOS.

MACFARLANE

259

History of the Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology. By T. STERRY

HUNT, LL.D...

281

Remarks on the Taconic Controversy. By E. BILLINGS, F.G.S.

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On the Genus Obolellina. By E. BILLINGS, F.G.S..

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Meteological Results for Montreal for the year 1871. By C. SMALLWOOD, M.D. 334

The Post-pliocene Geology of Canada. By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D...

History of the Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology. By T. STERRY

HUNT, LL.D..

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417

Sexual Selection in Man. By Prof. H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D..
Additional Notes on the Taconic Controversy. By E. BILLINGS, F.G.S...... 460
On some Fossils from the Primordial Rocks of Newfoundland. By E.
BILLINGS, F.G.S......

On the Structure of the Paleozoic Crinoids

On the supposed Legs of the Trilobite, Asaphus platycephalus..

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Supposed Legs of Trilobites......

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Note on the discovery of Fossils in the Winooski Marble at Swanton, Vt. 351