CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Annual Address of the President of the Natural History Society of Montreal. 1 



The Origin of Species 9 



On a new Fossil Crustacean from the Devonian Rocks of Canada. By Henry 



Woodward, F.G.S., F.Z.S '. 18 



The Post-Pliocene Greology of Canada. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S- • • 19 

 On the Physiography and Geology of the Island of Grand Manan. By Prof. 



L. W. Bailey 43 



On the Oil-bearing Limestone of Chicago. By T. Sterry Hunt, LL.D., F.R.S. 54 



Geological Survey of Canada 60 



On the Surface Geology of New Brunswick. By G. F. Matthew 89 



On the Food and Habits of some of our Marine Fishes. By Prof. A. E.Verrill 107 



Abstract of Proceedings of the British Association at Edinburgh, in 1871 129 



The Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada. Part 2. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D. . 166 



On the " Colonies " of M. Barrande. By Prof. H. A. Nicholson, M.D 188 



The Whale of the St. Lawrence. By Dr. J. W. Anderson 203 



Notes on the Primordial Rocks in the vicinity of Troy, N. Y. By S. W. Ford 209 



On some new species of Palaeozoic Fossils. By E. Billings, F.G.S 213 



The Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D 241 



On theOrigin and Classification of Original or Crystalline Rocks. By Thos. 



Macfarlane 259 



History of the Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology. By T. Starry 



Hunt, LL.D 281 



Remarks on the Taconic Controversy. By E. Billings, F.G.S 313 



On the Genus Obolellina. By E. Billings, F.G.S 326 



Meteological Results for Montreal for the year 1871. By C. Small wood, M.D. 334 



The Post-pliocene Geology of Canada. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D 369 



History of the Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology, By T. Sterry 



Hunt, LL.D t*. 417 



Sexual Selection in Man. By Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson, M.D 449 



Additional Notes on the Taconic Controversy. By E. Billings, F.G.S 460 



On some Fossils from the Primordial Rocks of Newfoundland. By E. 



Billings, F.G.S 464 



What is True Taconic ? By Prof. James D. Dana 479 



Geology and Mineralogy :— 



The Ancient Lakes of Western America 112 



On the Canadian Trilobite with Legs 227 



On the Structure of the Palaeozoic Crinoids 345 



On the supposed Legs of the Trilobite, Asaphus platycephalus 348 



Supposed Legs of Trilobites 350 



Note on the discovery of Fossils in the Winooski Marble at Swanton, Vt. 351 



