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embodied in the paper entitled, " On the Occurrence of Organic Re- 

 mains in the Laurentian Rocks of Canada," a paper published con* 

 jointly, but prepared independently by Sir William Logan, Dr, T. Sterry 

 Hunt and Principal (now Sir William) Dawson. 



After pointing out the latest views held on the lowest Laurentian 

 by Dr. G. M. Dawson, Dr. Ells and Dr. F. D. Adams, Sir William 

 summarises the, facts and states that "in the case of the Grenville lime- 

 stone " we have " to deal with a formation which indicates that in the 

 early period to which it belongs regular sedimentation was already in 

 full operation." 



Sir William then describes the mineralization of Eozoon and meets 

 the objections raised by Moebius "that the canal-systems of Eozoon and 

 its tubes present no regularity, " by alledging that "good specimens 

 and decalcified specimens are required to understand the arrangement " 

 of these tubes and canal systems. 



Dr. Carpenter's views regarding the combined Rotaline and 

 Nnmmuline characters of Eozoon are again quoted by Sir William as 

 practically unassailable. H. M. A. 



Botany. Canadian Wild Flowers. Painted and lithographed 

 by Agnes Fitz-Gibbon (Mrs. Chamberlin), Fourth Edition, 1895. 



This new edition of a beautiful and well known book which first 

 appeared in 1869 will be welcomed by ail lovers of Canadian wild 

 flowers. It is rather remarkable that with the many lovely wild flowers 

 we have in our Canadian woods there is no work, with the exception of 

 the one under consideration and Mrs. Traill's " Plant Life in Canada," 

 now out of print, where accurate figures and descriptions of the many 

 charming denizens of our woods can be found. A noticeable feature 

 of this work is that it is essentially Canadian, not only were the 

 drawings all done from nature by the talented artist, but also the litho- 

 graphing of the plates and their subsequent colouring by hand, an 

 undertaking simply gigantic in its proportions. The title page and ten 

 plates upon which groups of some of our more showy native flowering 

 plants are displayed in a most tasteful and artistic manner, are by Mrs. 

 Chamberlin, an honoured member of our Club. The literary part of 



