The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science

DAWSON BROTHERS, 55 TO 59 ST. JAMES STREET.
1869.

Entered, according to Act of the Provincial Parliament. in the year one thonsand eight hundred and sixty-nine, by DAWSON BROTHERS, in the Office of the Registrar of the Dominion of Canada.

MONTREAL: PRINTED BY THE MONTREAL PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

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Notes of a visit to Scientific Schools and Museums in the United States;

by Principal DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S.

On the Geology of South-Western Ontario; by T. STERRY HUNT.

On the choice of a Microscope; by J. BAKER EDWARDS, Ph.D., F.C.S.

On the Coleoptera of the Island of Montreal; by A. S. RITCHIE..

On the Geology and Silver Ore of Wood's Location, Lake Superior. Part

I.; by THOS. MACFARLANE.

On the Marine Mollusca of Eastern Canada; by J. F. WHITEAVES

On Chemical Explosives; by J. B. EDWARDS, Ph.D., F.C.S.

On the Great Snow Falls of 1869; by C SMALLWOOD, M.U., LL.D.

On Modern Ideas of Derivation; by Principal DAWSON. LL.D., F.R.S.

On the Occurrence of Arctic and Western Plants in Continental Acadia;

by G. F. MATTHEW, F.G.S.

On the Probable seat of Volcanic Action; by Dr, T. STERRY HUNT

On the Toad as an Entomologist; by A. S. RITCHIE.

On Trichina spiralis; by Dr. J. BAKER EDWARDS, F.C.S

On Remarkable Lunar Phenomenon: by C. SMALLWOOD, M.D., LL.D.

On the Distribution of Rain; by C. SMALLWOOD, M.D., LL.D..

On some f the Causes of the Excessive Mortality of Young Children in

the City of Montreal; by Philip P. Carpenter, B.A., Ph.D.

On the Partial Eclipse of the Sun, Aug. 7th; by Dr. C. SMALLWOOD.

On the Plants of the West Coast of Newfoundland; by Dr. JOHN BELL.

On Tadoussac Plants; by A. T. DRUMMOND, B.A., LL.B.

On Hyponome Sarsii, a recent Cystidean; by Dr. S. LOVEN.

On some results obtained by Dredging in Gaspé and off Murray Bay; by

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

On Microscopic Accessories; by J. BAKER EDWARDS, Ph. D., F.C.S.

On the Structure of the Cystidea, and Blastoidea; by E. BILLINGS, F.G.S.

On the Butterfly Pieris rape; by A. S. RITCHIE..

The introduced and spreading plants of Ontario and Quebec; by A. T.
DRUMMOND, B.A., LL.B

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Volcanoes and Earthquakes; by Dr. T. STERRY HUNT,..

Description of the Canadian species of Myosotis, with notes on other plants of

the natural order Boraginaceae; by G. LAWSON, Ph. D., LL.D..

On the Ranunculaceae of the Dominion of Canada, and of adjacent parts of
British America; by G. H. LAWSON, Ph. D., LL.D.

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407

Canadian Zoology..

411

On the structure of Cystidea and Blastoidea; by E. BILLINGS, F.G.S
On some Points in the Structure and Habits of the Paleozoic Crinoidea; by
F. B. MEEK and A. H. WORTHEN..

426

434

On the Existence of Rocks containing Organic Substances in the Fundamental
Gneiss of Sweden; by Messrs. IGLELSTROM, NORDENSKIOLD and EKMAN.. 452
On the Geology and Silver Ore of Wood's Location, Thunder Cape, Lake
Superior; Part II; by THOMAS MACFARLANE...

Obituary Notice

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE :-

Preliminary Notice of Meeting

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On Two New Genera of Extinct Cetacea; by Prof. COPE

On the Early Stages of Brachiopods; by Prof. E. S. MORSE.

Vertebrate nemains in Nebraska; by Prof. O. C. MARSH

On the Geology of the Coast of Maine; by Prof. S. W. JOHNSON

Some Notes on the Chemistry of Copper; by Dr. T. STERRY HUNT..

Coal and Iron in China; by Prof. A. S. BICKMORE