TABLE OF CONTENTS V 



X. Effect of the Wind on Currents and Tidal Streams. By 



Dr. W. Bell Dawson -. 179 



XI. Microseisms. By Dr. Otto Klotz. Presented by Dr. 



W. ¥. King " 19? 



XII. sut Width and Errors of 2Ieasurement in Radial Velocity 

 Determinations. By J. S. Plaskett. Presented by 



Dr. W. P. King. . ." 209 



XIII The Spectroscopic Binarij fi Orionis. By J. S. Plaskett. 



(Diagram). Presented by Dr. W. F. King 227 



XIV. Convection and. Stellar Variation. (Diagrams). By 



Ralph E. DeLury. Presented by Dr. W. P. King 227 



SECTIOX IV. 



I. The Drift of Alberta and the Relations of the Cordilleran 



and Keewatin Ice Sheets. By A. P. Coleman 3 



II. Bacteriological Analyses of Ottawa River Water. (Illus- 

 trated). By F. C. Hakrtson and J. Vandeeleck. 

 Presented by Lawrence M. Lambe 13 



III. The Canada Porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum (F. Ciivier). 



By Dr. Robert Bell 29 



IV. Notes on the Geology of the Oil-Shales of Scotland, and 



their relations to sotncwhat similar Oil-Sliales in 



Eastern Canada. By R. W. Ells 35 



V. The Geological Factors in the Present Configuration of 



New Brunswicl-. (Map). By Dr. L. W. Bailey. . 45 

 VI. The Geological Age of the Little River Group (Map). By 



Dr. Ct. F. Matthew G7 



VII. Revision of the Flora of the Little River Group No. IL 



(Plates) . By Dr. G. F. Matthew 77 



VIII. Remarl-able Forms of the Little River Group. (Plates). 



By Dr. G. F. Matthew 115 



IX. Bihliography of Canadian Entomology for the year 1908. 



By Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, D.C.L 135 



X. JEsculin Bile Salt Media for the Isolation of B. Coli and 

 B. typhosus. (Illustrated). By F. C. Harrison 

 and J. Vandeeleck. Presented by Lawrence 



M. Lambe 117 



XL Bibliography of Canadian Zoology for 1908 (exclusive of 



Entomology). By Lawrence M. Lambe 169 



XII. Tlie Semi-Centennial of the Origin of Species. By Prof. 



A. B. Macallum 177 



