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the Naturalist are now copied ui extenso in some of the scientific 

 journals of tlie Mother Country and the United States. Thus, 

 not less than six of these articles of the last volume have been 

 wholly reproduced in the London Scientific Opinion, to wit, two 

 by Dr. Edwards, one by Dr. Hunt, one by Mr. Ritchie, and two 

 by Dr. Sraallwood. Articles and the monthly proceedings of 

 this Society are also copied in Nature and other periodicals. This 

 important testimony to the value of the book must needs prove 

 especially gratifying to those engaged in this labor of love, and 

 should stimulate members to extend to the journal a more general 

 and earnest support. 



I would ask leave to bring before you here a list of the original 

 papers read by members during the past year, some of which 

 appeared in the Naturalist and reappeared, as I have said, in 

 English periodicals. These are in addition to the interesting 

 lectures given in the Sommerville course, which have been six in 

 number, and which I will enumerate first : — 



1. Feb., 10th, 1870. "Explorations in the Nipigon Country," 

 by Professor R. Bell, C.E., F.G.S. 



2. Feb. 17th. " Recent discoveries in Solar Physics, and the 

 total eclipse of August 7th, 1869," by James Douglas, jr.. Presi- 

 dent of the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec. 



3. Feb 24th. '' The Chemistry of Iron and Steel," by Dr. T. 

 Sterry Hunt, F. R. S. 



4. March 10th. '■'' On Deep Sea Dredging," by Principal 

 Dawson, L.L.D., F.R.S. 



5. March 17th. " On Gold," by Dr. G. P. Girdwood. 



6. March 24th. '' On Economic Mineral Deposits," by G. 

 Broome, Esq., F.G.S. 



I will notice and classify the papers read as follows : — 



I. GEOLOGY. 



Principal Dawson's paper on "some new Gaspe fossils," after 

 giving a general sketch of the geology of the peninsula of Gaspe, 

 adds some newly acquired information as to the fossil plants of 

 the Devonian rocks of that locality, and records the occurrence in 

 these beds of fossil fishes of the genus Macliair acanthus, also of 

 the genus Cephalaspis, — the first time this latter genus has been 

 observed in America- 



