CONTENTS. 



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 On the Rocks and Cupriferous Beds of Portage Lake, Michigan, U.S. 



By Thomas Macfarlane 1 



Comparisons of the Icebergs of Belle-Isle with the Glaciers of Mont 

 Blanc, with reference to the Boulder-clay of Canada. By J. W. 



Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S ••••• 33 



The Musk-rats as Builders and as Miners. By J. K. Lord, F.Z.S 45 



A Catalogue of the Carices collected by John Macoun, Belleville 56 



Notes on the Spectrum femoratum. By Alex. S. Ritchie 66 



The evidence of Fossil Plants as to the climate of the Post-pliocene 



Period in Canada. By J. W Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S 69 



On the Laurentian Rocks of Bavaria. By Dr. Gumbel, Director of the 



Geological Survey of Bavaria 81 



On the Canadian Species of the Genus Picea. By the Abbe 0. Brunet, 



Laval University • 102 



On the Objects and Method of Mineralogy. By Dr. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S. 110 

 On the Vital Statistics of Montreal. By P. P. Carpenter, B. A., Ph. D. 134 

 The Distribution of Plants in Canada, in some of its relations to physi- 

 cal and past geological conditions. By A. T. Drummond, B.A., 



LL.B 161 



On the Geological Formations of Lake Superior. By Thomas Macfar- 

 lane 1" 



On some remains of Palaeozoic Insects, recently discovered in Nova Scotia 



and New Brunswick. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.... 202 

 On the relation between the Glacial Deposits of Scotland and those of 



Canada. By the Rev. Henry W. Crosskey 207 



On a sub-division of the Acadian Carboniferous Limestones, with a de- 

 scription of a section across these rocks at Windsor, U.S. By C. 



Fred. Hartt, A.M 212 



On the Chemistry of the Primeval Earth. By T. Sterry Hunt, LL.D., 



F.R.S 225 



On the Geological Formations of Lake Superior. By Thomas Macfar- 



241 



LANE M * L 



On Scientific Education in Schools. From a Report of a Committee of 



the British Asociation for the Advancement of Science 257 



New Specimens of Eozoon. By Sir W. E. Logan, F.R.S., F.G.S 306 



On Eozoon Canadense. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. With 



Notes by W. B. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S 312 



Outlines of the Distribution of Arctic Plants. By Joseph D. Hooker, 



M.D., F.R.S 325 



Notices of some remarkable Genera of Plants of the Coal Formation. 



By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S 362 



On the Azoic and Palaeozoic Rocks of Southern New Brunswick. By 



F. G. Matthew 387 



