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of Montreal, tlic comparatively few persons who visit tlie Museum, 

 only 1000 during the past twelve mouths, is certainly somewhat 

 remarkable. I believe this arises, however, in a great measure, 

 from the fact that the character and interest of the collection is 

 not generally known. The doors are now open gratuitously to 

 the public every day in the week, Sundays excepted, from 10 

 a.m. to 4 p.m. ; and there are in the cases upwards of seven 

 thousand named specimens of Canadian fossils, minerals and 

 rocks, illustrative of the economic and scientific geology of the 

 Dominion." 



" In the library, which already contains upwards of 2000 

 volumes, comprising standard works of reference on Geology, 

 31ineralogy, Metallurgy, Chemistry and Natural History, im- 

 portant additions are annually made both by purchase and pre- 

 sentation. The latter comprising valuable reports and maps 

 issued by State Geological Surveys in America, Europe, India 

 and Australia, as well as copies of the transactions of various 

 scientific societies sent in return for the Dublications of the 

 Canadian Survey. Like the Museum, the library is available to 

 the public for purposes of reference and study. Want of space, 

 however, at present is a serious drawback to the realization of 

 its full value, and also prevents the proper arrangement of the 

 books, the numberinor and catalofruins; of which is now in pro- 

 gross, " 



" Mr. E. Billings, who has charge of the Palaeontological 

 branch of the Survey and Museum, reports that in addition to 

 his duties as Curator he has been engaged in studying and des- 

 cribing fossils from Gaspe and from various localities in Nova 

 Scotia and in Ontario. Some of the results of these investiga- 

 tions are given in Part I, Vol. II, of the Palaeozoic fossils of 

 Canada, which is now in the press and will be issued shortly. It 

 will contain about fifty wood cuts and six lithographed plates of 

 fossils with 125 pages of descriptive text." 



" Mr. A. H. Foord, the artist to the Survey, has done a large 

 amount of very excellent work in the preparation of drawings and 

 lithographs of fossils to illustrate the geological reports, and for 

 the second volume of the Palaeozoic fossils of Canada." 



'' During the month of August and apart of September, Mr. 

 Foord was engaged collecting fossils from the Devonian rocks at 

 Percd, Gulf of St. Lawrence, required by Mr. Billings, to enable 

 him to complete his description of the fossils of the formation." 



