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A uuaaimous and hearty vote of thanks being tendered to Mr. 

 Selwyn for his paper, the meeting closed. 



The fourth meeting was held on Monday evening, February 

 22nd. In the absence of the President, Mr. Whiteaves, F.G.S., 

 occupied the chair. 



After routine business, the Chairman exhibited some remains 

 of Elephas primigenius, obtained from the Youcan and Porcu- 

 pine Rivers, and presented to the Society by the Ven. Archdeacon 

 MacDonald of Fort MacPherson, N. W. T. These remains com- 

 prise a lumbar vertebra, the ulna and radius of a foreleg, a tibia, 

 an almost entire lower jaw, and several molars. These bones 

 "were supposed to represent several individuals. 



Dr. J. Baker Edwards then read a paper on '' Molybdenite 

 and its useful products." 



Mr. J. T. Donald followed with a paper on -' The Helderberg 

 Rocks of St. Helen's Island," which appears in another part of 

 this issue. 



The fifth meeting was held on Monday evening, April 5th. 

 Principal Dawson occupied the chair. 



Messrs. C. S. Baker, Thomas Chambers and T. C. Brainerd 

 were elected ordinary members of the Society. 



W. J. Morris, Esq., exhibited and presented to the Society 

 two fine specimens of Eozoon Canadense, from North Burgess, 

 Ont. The exhibitor stated that the mass from which these 

 specimens were obtained was not embedded, but had the appear- 

 ance of a reef resting upon a crystalline limestone. 



Mr. J. B. Goode exhibited his fine collection of Canadian 

 Ferns, and read a paper describing the species and varieties ob- 

 tained by him last summer, and mentioning the localities in 

 which they were found. 



Principal Dawson then presented a paper entitled " New facts 

 respecting the geological relations of the Iron Ores of Pictou, 

 Nova Scotia." In this paper he stated the results of the com- 

 parison of his own observations on the rocks of the East River 

 of Pictou with those of E. Gilpin, Esq., F.G.S., and with the 

 inferences deducible from large collections of fossils made by 

 request of the author by Mr. D. Eraser. 



It appears that the older rocks represented on the rising 

 grounds bounding the valley of the East Branch of the East 



