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THE

CANADIAN

Naturalist and Geologist,

AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

OF MONTREAL.

CONDUCTED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

VOLUME V.

Montreal:

PUBLISHED BY B DAWSON & SON, 23 GREAT ST. JAMES STREET.

1860.

CANADIAN NATURALIST.

This Magazine will appear bi-monthly, and be conducted by the following Committee, appointed by the Natural History Society of Montreal:

J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.G.S., Principal of McGill College.

T. STERRY HUNT, A.M., F.R.S., Chemist to Geological Survey of Canada. E. BILLINGS, F.G.S. Paleontologist.

DAVID ALLAN POE,

REV. A. F. KEMP.

W. H. HINGSTON, M.D., Correspondonding Secretary Nat. Hist. Society. JOHN LEEMING, Recording Secretary

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Entered, according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-one, by BENJAMIN DAWSON & SON, in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

ARTICLE I.-On Fossil Plants from the Devonian Rocks of Canada.

II.-List of Plants found growing as indigenous in the

neighbourhood of Prescott; by B. Billings,

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III. On the Tubicolous Marine Worms of the Gulf of St.

Lawrence; by J. W. Dawson, LL.D., &c.,...............

IV.-A Classified List of Marine Algæ from the Lower St.

Lawrence; by the Rev. Alex. F. Kemp,..

V.-Unusual modes of Gestation in Batrachians and Fishes.

VI.-Description of some new species of Fossils from the

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Silurian Rocks of Canada; by E. Billings, F.G.S.. 49

VII.-Description of a new Paleozoic Starfish of the genus

Palaaster, from Nova Scotia; by E. Billings, F.G.S. 69

VIII. Observations on the Natural History of the valley of

the River Rouge; by W. S. M. D'Urban,..

IX.-Review of "Darwin on the Origin of Species by means

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of Natural Selection,".

X.-Abridged Sketch of the life of Mr. David Douglas,... 120

XI. On the Silurian and Devonian Rocks of Nova Scotia. 132

XII.-Description of New Species of Fossils from the Silu-

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rian Rocks of Nova Scotia; by James Hall,.

XIII.-New Species of Fossils from the Lower Silurian Rocks

of Canada; by E. Billings, F.G.S.........

XIV. Notices of the Life of the late Professor George Wilson

of Edinburgh,..

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XV.-Notice of Tertiary Fossils from Labrador, Maine, &c;

by J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.G.S.,

XVI.-Abridged Sketch of the life of Mr. David Douglas,.... 200

XVII-A Systematic List of Lepidoptera collected in the

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vicinity of Montreal; by W. S. M. D'Urban,... 241

XVIII.-Abridged Sketch of the life of Mr. David Douglas,.. 267

XIX. On the Track of an Animal lately found in the Pots-

dam Formation; by Sir W. E. Logan, F.R.S.,..... 279

XX.-Notes on the Coal Fields of Pictou; by H. Poole, Esq., 285

XXI.-On new Localities of Fossiliferous Silurian Rocks in

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Eastern Nova Scotia; by Rev. D. Honeyman,.. 293

XXII.-Note on a specimen of Menobranchus lateralis, taken

at London, C. W.; by W. Saunders, Esq.,........ 299

XXIII.-On some new species of Fossils from the Limestone

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near Point Levi; by E. Billings, F.G.S........ 301

XLIV.-Abridged Sketch of the life of Mr. David Douglas..

XLV.-A Holiday Visit to the Acton Copper Mines...

XLVI.-Notes on the Earthquake of October, 1860..

XLVII.-The Meteor of July 20, 1860; by C. S. Lyman..

XLVIII.-La Verrier's Report on the Solar Eclipse of July, 1860. 376

XLIX. On certain Theories of the formation of Mountains,

L.-Description of a new Trilobite from the Potsdam Sand-

stone; by Frank H. Bradley....

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LI.-Notes on Birds wintering in and around Montreal; by

H. G. Vennor, junr.,...