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Keport of the Council 209 



List of Papers presented 209 



Officers for 1869-70 • 216 



Treasurer's Account 217 



Field-Day at Beloeil 218 



The British Association :— 



The Devonian Group ; by Prof. Godttin-Austin 301 



The Granite of Dartmoor ; by G. W. Ormerod 302 



The Source of the Miocene Clays ; by W. Pengelly 302 



The Brachiopoda of " Hebble-Bed " ; by J. Davidson 303 



The Source of some Quartzose Rocks : by Edward Hull 303 



On some Fresh -water Deposits ; by H. Woodward 304 



The Exploration of Kent's Cavern 304 



The Entrance of the Mammoth : by H, Howorth 306 



Trappeon Conglomerates ; by M. G. Maw 307 



Colour in Birds 30S 



Report of the Close-term Committee 309 



On Deep Sea Dredging '. 310 



The Improvement of Cereals ; by F. F. Hallet 314 



Geology and Mineralogy :— 



The Wakefield Cave 71 



Geological Time 73 



Deep Sea Dredging in its Relations to Geology 78 



Calamites and Calamodendron 81 



Pre-historic Man in France 85 



Note on the Blastoidea 89 



Gold Deposits of Nova Scotia 229 



Fossil Bivalved Entomostraca 336 



Boulder Clay 349 



Pre-historic Horses 354 



Botany and Zoology :^ 



English Plant Names 90 



Field-Day of the Woodhope Naturalists Field Club .95 



Mimicry in Nature 98 



The Ordeal Poison-Nut 99 



Zoological Notes 101 



Mosquitoes in England 103 



Plants new to Canada 357 



Mosses ne w to Canada 359 



The Acrogens of Lake Superior 362 



Note on the Name of As pidium spinulosum var. dilatatum 367 



Botany of the West Coast of America 378 



Spectroscopic Examination of the Diatomaceee 372 



Chejustry and Physics :— 



On Hydraulic Cements 104 



On the Decomposition of Granite by Water 106 



Oxychloride of Copper 106 



Chromic Iron •_ 107 



Reduction of Nitrates and Sulphates in certain Fermentations 107 



Effects of great Cold on Tin 107 



Analjsis of Graphite 107 



On Phosphorus in Iron 108 



Natural Inflammable Gases 109 



Spontaneous Ignition -■- 110 



New Chemical Toy Ill 



Meteorology 112 



Meteorological Report for 1868 115 



New Explosive Powders 245 



Miscellaneous :— 



Microscopic Illumination 118 



Social and Sanitary Science ■ 119 



Physiological 120 



Sorby's Blow-Pipe Crystals 246 



Solar Heat ■ 248 



How to Furnish a Fresh-water Aquarium 373 



The Microscopic Club 225 



Reviews and Notices of Books :— 



Dr. R. A. Smith's Disinfectants and Disinfection 226 



The Entomological Correspondence of Thaddeus W. Harris 332 



Mrs. Fitzgibbon's Canadian AVild Flowers 100 



Dr. Rabenhorst's European Cryptogams 360 



Dr. Packard's Guide to the Study of Insects 104 



The Canadian Entomologist 104 



Le Naturaliste Canadien 119 



Biniiey's Flora of the Carboniferous Strata 81 



Lartet and Christy's Reliquiae Aquitanicje 85 



Plate of Trichinse to face page 179 



" of the Eclipse to face page 249 



Map of Wood's Location to face page 37 



