2 TH£ CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Yol. vi. 



United States. He subsequently became attached to the Geologi- 

 cal Survey of Canada, and was employed more especially in the 

 coal-fields of Nova Scotia, on which he prepared two elaborate 

 and most valuable reports : one on the structure of a part of the 

 Pictou coal-field, the other on the quality of the coals of Pictou. 

 While in the midst of these useful labors he was suddenly struck 

 down by disease, at the early age of 23. Mr. Hartley was a 

 Fellow of the Greological Societies of London and of France, a 

 member of the Institute of Civil Engineers of Scotland, and of 

 the Institute of M in in 2: Eno-ineers of the North of Enuland, and 

 of various local societies. His attainments in Mineralogy, in Geo- 

 logy and in Mming Engineering were extraordinary for his years 

 and gave promise of a brilliant career. Science in Montreal can 

 little afford to lose two such men. 



THE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PRESENTED 



to the Society in the past year have been numerous and valuable 

 and most of them have been printed in full in our journal, the 

 Canadian Naturalist. The following may be especially men- 

 tioned : "Aquaria Studies," Part 2d, by Mr. A. S. Ritchie ; " On 

 a specimen 0? Beluga recently discovered at Cornwall, Ontario," 

 byE. Billings, Esq., F. G. S. '-On the Earthquake of October 

 20th, 1870, " by Principal Dawson, F. R. S. ; '■' On Canadian 

 Phosphates, in their application to x\griculture, " by Gordon 

 Broome, F.G.S. ; '• On the Origin of Granite," by G. A. Kinahan, 

 Esq., of Dublin ; '-' Notes on Vegetable Productions, ; by Major 

 G. E. Bulger; "On the species of Deer inhabiting Canada," by 

 Prof. R. Bell, F. G. S. ; " On the Sanitary Condition of Mont- 

 real," by Dr. P. P. Carpenter; '-'On the Foraminifera of the 

 Gulf and River St. Lawrence, " by G. M. Dawson ; " On Cana- 

 dian Foraminifera, " by J. F. Whiteaves, F. G. S. ; "' On some 

 New Facts in Fossil Botany, " by Principal Dawson, F. R. S. ; 

 "On the occurrence of Diamonds in New South Wales, " by Mr. 

 Norman Taylor, and Prof. A. Thompson; communicated by A. 

 R. C. Selwyn Esq., F. G. S. ; "' On the Structure and affinities 

 of the Brachiopoda," by Prof. Morse; '-'On a Mineral Silicate 

 injecting Palaeozoic Crinoids, " by Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, F. R. S. 

 " On the Origin and Classification of Crystalline Rocks, " by Mr. 

 Thomus Macfarlane ; "On the Plants of the West Coast of New- 

 foundland, " by John Bell, M. A., M. D. ; " On Canadian Diato 

 maceae, " by Mr. W. Osier ; " On the Botany of the Counties of 

 Hastings and Addington," by B. J. Harrington, B, A. 



