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Geological Survey ov Canada, (G. M. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. 

 Director). Animal Report, (new series) Vol. IX, Reports A, F, I, L, H, R, S, 

 (1896), No. 655. Ottawa, 1898. Published by authority of Parliament. 



This vohime of reports and maps of investigations and surveys by the staff of the 

 Geological Survey Department is the ninth of the new series of Annual Reports 

 published by the survey, and forms No. 65S of the list o( publications already issued 

 by this uselul and important branch of the service. It comprises S16 pages, and is 

 accompanied by tive maps and twenty plates, besides a number of figures and 

 diagrams in the text. It opens with 1 "Summary report of the Department fur the 

 year 1896," by the director, in which is given the preliminary results of theyear's in- 

 vestigations in British Columbia, North-west Territories and Keewatin, in Ontario, 

 Quebec, the Labrador Peninsula and Nova Scotia. 



The following Reports are also included in the volume : 



Tyrrell, f. B. — Reporl of the Doohaii>it, R'azaii and F^muson Rivers and the N ofth- 

 tvest Coast of Hudson Fiiv, 193 images. Appendix I. Chippc7veya>i names of 

 places, 4 pages .\ppendix II. Vocabulary of tvords used by the tribe of inland 

 Eskimos tnhabitiiii^ the banks of Kazan and Ferguson rivers, 9 pages. Appen- 

 dix III. --/'/aw^- (excludve of alg« and fungi). 14 pages. An interesting his- 

 torical sketch, the description of routes travelled in 1894, the physical geography 

 geographical summary and resources of that hitherto almost unknown territory 

 are presented and discussed in an able and interesting, as well as practical and 

 systematic manner, so as to make the report a most useful and indispensable 

 guide to anyone entering the region described. The cuts illustrating this 

 report are most interesting, and include two showing txlensive herds of the 

 Barren-Cj round Caribou on the shore of Carey Lake. 



Bell, Robert. — Report on the Geology of the Fiench River sheet, Ontario, 29 pages. 

 Describes the Archaean rocks ot the sheet, the Huronian and Laurentian, the 

 greenstones, arkose, clay slates and slate-conglomerates, the Huronian lime- 

 stones ; also the Cambro-Silurian areas included within the sheet, besides a 

 dissertation on the surface geology of the region, closing with a chapter on the 

 Economic Minerals kown to date. A geological map accompanies the report. 



Low, A. P. — Report of a traverse of the northern part of the Labrador Peninsula 

 from Richmond Gulf to Ungava Bay; o^t, pages. Describes the routes taken and 

 the geographical as well as topographical features of the country, together with 

 an interesting resuine of the various superficial deposits occurring in this region 

 with special reference to the period of glaciation. Mr. Low's report is also 

 accompanied by a map. 



Baily, L. W. — Report on the geology of South-west A^ova Scotia, 1 54 pages. Contains 

 the following : {a) Physical features and surface deposits, (b) Cambrian System, 

 granites, (c) Silurian, Devonian and associate rocks, (</) Economic Minerals, {e) 

 Appendix, giving list of glacial slria\ This report includes numerous lists of fossil 

 organic remains from the .Silurian and Devonian marine beds of the Nictaux- 

 Torbrook iron-ore basin. 



Hoffmann, G. C. — Report of tht section on Chemistry and Mineralogy, 53 pages. 

 I. Coals and lignites. II. Miscellaneous Mineralogy. III. Mineralogical notes. 

 IV.- Rocks. V. Limestones (analyses). VI. Gold and silver assays from Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, N.W. Terr., Ontario and Labrador. VII. 

 Nickel and Cobalt. VIII. Natural waters. IX. Miscellaneous examinations. 

 This report is of great value to the country. 



ItiGKlA., 'E.'D. — Section of Mineral Statistics and Mines, 1896, 169 pages. — Gives 

 the most reliable information and figures on the output and value of the ores and 

 minerals of Canada. 



This volume is made"*complete by the presence of an index for reference to 

 subjects, places and economic resources mentioned in the text. 



