INDEX. 479 



PAGK 



Ink-gland of dibranchiate cephalopods 414 



Interglaeial epochs 126 



Iron, process for conversion of, into steel 191 



Iron ores, genesis of certain 431 



" ore, titaniferous 309 



Japan, traces of an early race in 62 



Lakes, pre-glacial formation of beds of 213 



Land snails of paleozoic era 419 



Lkfroy Sir J. H., on American geography 420 



Life question, some modern aspects of. . . 386 



Lignite Tertiary, plants from 447 



Lithology, Prof. J. D. Dana on 40, 80 



Locust, the Rocky Mountain 128 



London Geological Society, extract from proceedings of 189 



Macfarlaxe Mr. T., on Canadian stratigraphy 91 



Matthew Mr. G. F., on tidal erosion in Bay of Fundy 368 



Menohranchus maculatus IgO 



Meteorological abstract for 1879 316 



Mineral of the Scapolite family, a peculiar 437 



MoBius on Eozoon Canadense IO5 



Montgomery Mr. H., on Menohranchus maculatus 160 



Montreal, water supply of 1]6 



Mosquito as a nurse 63 



Mound-builders of the west 60 



Natural selection, Dr. Robins on 414 



Niagara group, Gonularia from 62 



Natural History Society proceedings 56, 124, 164, 241, 310, 373, 430, 472 



" " cabinet-keeper's report 442 



Notes on Canadian ferns 49, 297 



" *' rocks and minerals 242 



Nova Scotia, Dr. J. W. Dawson on geology of 1 



Nurse, mosquito as 63 



Nutritive values of fish 407 



Origin of anthracite 434 



•' of some American Indian tribes 65, 193 



Paleozoic land snails 449 



Photophone, the 397 



Plants from Lignite Tertiary 447 



" New Erian (Devonian) 475 



Pre-Cambrian rocks, history of 257 



Pre-glacial formation of beds of American lakes 213 



Proceedings Natural History Society 56, 124, 164, 241, 310, 373, 430, 472 



Pterygotus, a Canadian 103 



-Pursh Frederick, monument to 184 



