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ascertained geographical range is from the Cape de Verde to the Folar Sea, and on 

 the western side of that ocean a few specimens of it have been dredged in deep water 

 in the bay of Fundy ond on St. George's Banks, by the U.S. Fish Commission, 

 between the years 1864 and 1872. 



Hitherto it has not been recorded as occurring in the Pacific. In the fall of 1S94, 

 however, Mr. Otto J. Klotz, D.T.S., of this city, presented to the museum of the 

 Geological Survey Department a fine specimen of a coral, collected by himself at 

 Work Inlet, near Fort Simpson, B.C.. which Professor Verrill has identified with this 

 species. The specimen is upwards of three feet in height, and a little more than two 

 feet in the maximum spread of its branches. Another specimen of P. leseda which 

 is said to have been collected on the north coast of the Oueen Charlotte Islands, has 

 recently been given to Professor Mncoun by Mr. C. F. Anderson, of Comox, V.I. 



3. Note on Tertiary Fossil Plants from the -.icinity of the City of Vancouver, B. C. 



By Sir William Dawson, F.A'.S., &r~c. 



The paper relates to a series of beds holding lignite and vegetable fossilss 

 and estimated at 3,0x1 feet or more in thickness which occurs in the southern 

 part of British Columbia, between Burrard Iniet and the United States 

 boundary. These bids have been noticed in the Reports of the Geological Survey 

 by .Messrs. Richardson, Bowman, and by Dr. G. M Dawson, and are believed to 

 be newer than the Cretaceous coal-measures of Nanaiino and Comox, and probably 

 equivalent to the " Puget Group " of the United States geologists in the State of 

 Washington. 



Collections of the fossil plants have been made at various times by officers of the 

 Geological Survey, who are mentioned in the paper, and more recently by Mr. <'.. F. 

 Monckton, of Vancouver, who has kindly placed his material in the hands of the 

 author, along with that previously entrusted to him by the Geological Survey. 



The species contained in the several collections are mentioned in the paper, and 

 are compared with those of the Puget group, as de-cribed by Newberry and Les 

 quercux, and with those of other localities in British Columbia and the United 

 States. The conclusion as to the agt of the flora is similar to that arrived at by 

 Newberry for the Puget flora, or that it is equivalent to the Upper Laramie or Fort 

 Union group. It thus intervenes in date between the Upper Cretaceous of Nanaimo 

 and the Oligocene or Lower Miocene of the Similkameen district, already noticed in 

 the Transactions of the Royal Society, and is therefore of Eocene age, filling a gap 

 hitherto existing in the mesozoic flora of the West Coast. 



Much undoubtedly remains to be known of this interesting flora, ami as the for- 

 mation containing it, which seems to be estuarine in character, extends over a wide 

 area in British Columbia and Washington, and is of considerable thickness, more 

 especially in its extension south of the Canadian boundary, it may prove to include 

 several sub-divisions representing the long interval between the Cretaceous and the 

 Middle Tertiary. 



4. Account of I nv3siig.it ions on the psychic development of young animals, an J its 



physical correlation. By Prof. T. Wesley Mills, M. A., M.D., etc. 



The account of investigation on the psychic development of young animals and 

 its physical correlation, which was begun last year in a paper on the Dog, will be 

 tinued in a series of papers, to be presented at the meeting of this year. These 

 will embrace reports of investigations on : I. The Mongrel dog, and the Mongrel and 

 the pure-bred dog compared. II. The Cat. III. The Dog and the Cat compared. 

 IV. The Rabbit and the Guinea fig. V. Birds. 



In these papeis the same plan will be followed as in the paper on the Dog pre- 

 sented to the Society last year, i.e., after an introduction there will follow a diary or 

 daily history of progress in development, and final remarks on the latter, with some 

 of the main conclusions to be drawn from the lacts stated in the diary. An attempt 

 will be made throughout to correlate physical development with psychic develop- 

 ment. 



