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Of this Mr. Billings seems to have been uncertain, for he says,* 

 '' Should it be admitted that E.JacksoJii is distinct frompr«*mi- 

 genins, etc., etc." * 



Again, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, in a paper read before the Geo- 

 logical Society, f speaking of the mammoth, says : •' The animal 

 ranged over the whole of North America, fr m the frozen cliffs 

 of Eschscholtz Bay as far south as the Isthmus of Darien — the 

 Eleplias americanvs of Leidy and the E. Colnmhi of Falconer 

 (-£'. Texiamis, Owen) being mere varieties of the same sort as 

 those observable in the European mammoths, founded merely 

 on the relative width and coarsness of the plates composing the 

 grinders; while the E. Jacksoni of Billings merely supplies a 

 slight variation in the form of the lower jaw. 



In the light of all the evidence thus adduced, I think we may 

 finally refer the elephant remains of Washington Territory, 

 represented by this molar, to E. j^rimigcnius, var. Jdcksoni. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY OF MONTREAL. 



The first meeting of the Natural History Society for Session 

 1878-79 was held in the rooms of the Society on the evening of 

 Monday, October 28th. Principal Dawson occupied the chair. 



A paper was read by Dr. Harrington on apatite and the 

 minerals associated with it in the region north of the Ottawa 

 which has recently attracted so much attention. The general 

 similarity between the apatite-bearing veins of this district and 

 that of Ontario was referred to, and also the striking parallelism 

 between the constituents of the deposits here and in Norway. 

 The minerals occurring- in the Norwesrian veins, as enumerated 

 by Broegger and Reucsh,;}; are apatite, kjerulfin, quartz, ortho- 

 clase, albite, oligoclase (and albite, so-called Tschermakite), 

 esmarkite, aspasiolite, scapolite, pyroxene, enstatite, hornblende, 

 phlogopite, chlorite, talc? tourmaline, titanite, rutile, specular 

 iron ore, titanic iron ore, magnetite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, 

 pyrite and calcite. In the Ottawa region the following have 



* Con. Nat. and Geol., Old Series, Vol. VIII, p. 144. 



t Quart. Journal Geol. Soc., Vol. XXXV, p. 145. 



X Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geol. Gesellschaft, XXVII., s. 646. 



