XLVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
4.—* The value of Nature Study in Practical Education.” By Dr. 
James Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist, ete. 
5.— ‘Notes on some butterflies- from Western Canada.” By Dr. 
James Fletcher, Dominion : Entomologist. 
6.—* The Carboniferous Basin in New Brunswick.” By R. W. 
Ells, LL.D., of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
The Carboniferous rocks in New Brunswick embrace an area of 
not far from 12,000 square miles. They occur in a roughly triangular 
shaped basin, which extends from the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east 
as a base, nearly to the south-west boundary of the Province. At a 
number of points beds of coal are found, but these, in so far as yet 
examined, are thin, ranging from a very few inches to about two feet 
in thickness. Borings have been made from time to time for over sixty 
years to ascertain, the presence of thicker or more workable beds, but 
owing to various causes such attempts have not yet been successful. 
The greater portion of the area, however, has not yet been proved. 
The paper will briefly state some -of the principal conclusions 
arrived at regarding the structure of this basin during the last thirty 
years, and will indicate the relations of the Carboniferous sediments to 
the rocks of the underlying formations. 
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i.—** On some Modes of Occurrence of the Mineral Albertite.” By 
Professor L. W. Bailey, LL.D., of New Brunswick University. 
Since the closing of the celebrated Albert Mines, in Albert County, 
New Brunswick, the ownership of which for a time hinged upon the 
determination of whether the mineral which thence derived its name 
should be regarded as Coal or Asphalt—a number of interesting observa- 
tions have been accumulating which have a direct bearing upon this 
question. The present paper narrates and discusses some of these 
observations, and is accompanied by specimens illustrating the occur- 
rence of the mineral with widely different associations, and in rocks 
of quite different geological horizons, e. g., in Pre-Cambrian slates, in 
Calcareo bituminous shales, in gray Carboniferous sandstones,.in snowy 
Alabaster, in admixtures of Calcite and Pyrite, and cementing crystals 
of Selenite. The vein-like nature of the mineral and its originally 
fluid or semi-fluid condition is strongly emphasized. 
8.—“ On some Geological Correlations in New Brunswick.” By 
Professor Bailey, LL.D., of New Brunswick University. 
While the geological age of the rock formations in New Brunswick 
has in most instances been determined ‘upon satisfactory evidence, much 
uncertainty has existed regarding certain important groups of strata and 
especially those which, consisting largely of slaty rocks, border the great 
central granite axis which traverses the central part of the Province, in 
