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to the nation all scientific information and specimens discovered 

 by the employees of the company. The particular skull was 

 found by Mr. A. W. Phillips, Resident Engineer, at Tranquille. 

 Unfortunately the bones found with it were buried in the dump 

 by the ignorant labourers, but effort is being made by the authori- 

 ties of the railroad to have them uncovered for the national 

 museum. The skeleton was turned out near Tranquille by the 

 grading machine plough about 8 feet below the surface of the 

 ground and was sent to Mr. H. L. Johnston, Division Engineer 

 at Savona. The Dominion Archaeologist of the Canadian Geo- 

 logical Survey has urged upon the authorities and engineers of 

 this road as well as upon those of the other great railroads of 

 Canada, the Indian agents, and the North West Mounted Police, 

 the great necessity of saving whatever is found for the use of all 

 the people of Canada. Accession 13. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Elementary Entomology. Bv E. Dwight Sanderson and 

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