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sity. In recognition of his services to the science of Geology, he was 

 this year awarded the Bigsby Medal by the Geological Society of Eng- 

 land, and on June 4th was elected a Fellow of the X-oyal Society of 

 England, the highest honour which can be conferred on a scientific man. 

 As a writer, Dr. Dawson is clear, terse and simple, and the chief char- 

 acteristics of his work are accuracy and thoroughness. 



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EXTINCT CANADIAN VERTEBRATES 



FROM THE 



MIOCENE ROCKS OF THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES 



OF CANADA. 



The following is an abstract of a most interesting address delivered 

 by Mr. H. M. Ami, First Assistant Palceontologist of the Geological 

 Survey Department, upon one of the afternoon excursions, to the 

 Museum last winter. There were about 80 members and friends 

 in attendance. 



Amongst the more recent and interesting additions to the collec- 

 tions in the National Museum on Sussex Street, Ottawa, Canada, are 

 the mammalian and fish remains from the Tertiary rocks of the Cana- 

 dian North-West. These collections, which were made by Messrs. R. 

 G. McConnell and T. C. Weston esprcially, have been recently studied 

 by Prof E. D. Cope, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 and the result of his observations will soon be made known in a memoir 

 now in print, published by the Geological Survey Department. The 

 specimens in question are now on exhibition m the upright cases of 

 the Museum, and from the labels attached the following interesting 

 forms are noticed of special interest. 



Extinct Rhinoceros. 



Menodiis angustigenis — This is the name which Prof. Cope has 

 given to the largest species of hoofed animal analogous to the rhino- 

 ceros that has ever yet been discovered, and which, in early Tertiary 

 times, was roaming about in the extmct forests of the now treeless 



