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of the most desirable of all of our wild flowers for cultivation in gardens 

 and will certainly become commercial before long. 



Aster multiflorus, Ait. Fine specimens of this species are 

 also now to be seen in full flower in the Botanic garden. The profusion 

 of pure white flowers make this Michaelmas Daisy also x very desirable 

 late-flowering garden plant. The roots were received from Toronto and 

 Manitoba. 



GEOLOGY. 



Edited by Dr. R. W. Ells. 



i. The Age of the Niagara River. There is still considerable 

 diversity of opinion as to the probable age of the Niagara river. In 

 American Geologist for September, Warren Upham computes the age 

 of the Niagara River at 7,000 years (seep. 199); whilst Dr. Spencer 

 places the same at 32,000 years. 



2. Mount St. Elias. It is certainly gratifying to hear that the 

 results of recent observations on the x\laskan boundary have proved 

 this volcanic peak to be in British Columbia and not in Alaska. There 

 are several peaks in that region which are higher than St. Elias, whose 

 summit touches the clouds at 18,000 feet, amongst these is Mt. Logan, 

 (called in honour of Sir Wm. Logan) the highest peak in North 

 America. The altitude of Mt. Logan is 19,685 feet above the sea. 



3. Death of George H. Williams. It is with feelings of deep 

 sorrow that we have to chronicle the death of one of the foremost men 

 in the ranks of geological science on this continent. In the August 

 number of the American Geologist, p. 136, there is a brief obituary 

 notice which is here given : 



" George Huntingdon Williams, Professor of Inorganic Geology 

 in Johns Hopkins University and Vice-President of the Geological 

 Society of America, died of typhoid fever, at his father's house, Utica, 

 N. Y., July 1 2th, aged 38. Prof. Williams graduated from Amherst in 

 1878, and studied under Rosenbusch at Heidelberg, where he took the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in 1882; the next year he became 

 connected with Johns Hopkins and was associate professor there from 

 1885 to 1892, when he was appointed to the chair he held at his death. 

 A number of the younger geologists of the country have studied under 



