CONTENTS. 



Pagb 

 Annual Address of the President of the Ncatural History Society of Montre»1, 



Principal Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., May, 1872 T 



Notes on some Results of the Solar Eclipse of December, 1871. By G. F. 



Armstrong, M. A., C.E 11 



Impressions of Cuba. By G. F. Matthew, F.G.S 19, 75 



Geological Features of Huron County, Ontario. By John Gibson, B.A 36 



Notes on the Marine Clays occurring at the Railway Cutting on the left Bank 



of the Tattagouche River. By Rev. C. H. Paisley, M.A 41 



Epizootic Influenza in Horses. By D. McEaChran, V.S 43 



Impressions and Footprints of Aquatic Animals, and Imitative Markings on 



Carboniferous Rocks. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S 65 



Notes on a Deep-Sea Dredging Expedition round the Island of Anticosti in 



the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S 86 



On the Geological Relations of the Iron Ores of Nova Scotia. By J. W. Daw- 

 son, LL.D., F.R.S.. 129 



Descriptions of New Fossils from the Devonian Rocks of Western Ontario. 



By H. Alleyne Nicholson, F.R.S 138 



Notes on Prototaxites • 173 



Notes on a Journey through the North-West Territory, from Manitoba to 



Rocky Mountain House. By A. R. C. Sklwyn, F.G.S 193 



Botanical and Geological Notes. By A. T. Drummond, B.A., LL.B., 217 



Occurrence of Gigantic Cuttle Fishes on the Coast of Newfoundland. By A. 



E. Verrill 224 



On some new or little known Fossils from the Silurian and Devonian Rocks 



of Ontario. By E. Billings, F.G.S 230 



The Lignite Formations of the West. By George M. Dawson, Assoc. R.S.M. 241 

 Notes on the Occurrence of Foraminifera, Coccoliths, &c., in the Cretaceous 



Rocks of Manitoba. By Gt?orge M. Dawson, Assoc. R. S. M 252 



On Recent Deep-Sea Dredging Operations in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By 



J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S ....257 



On the Post-Pliocene Formation near Bathurst, New Brunswick. By Rev. 



C. H.Paisley, M.A 268 



Two new Fossil Cockroaches from the Carboniferous of Cape Breton. By 



Samuel H. Scudder 271 



On some new Genera and Species of Palaeozoic MoUusca. By E. Billings. • 301 

 Notes (?n Dawsonite. a new Carbonate. By B. J. Harrington, B.A., Ph.D.. 305 

 The Fluctuations of the American Lakes, and the Development of Sun-spots- 



By G. M. Dawson, Assoc. R.S.M 310 



