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Little Glace Bay, Pictou, and other mines ; gold specimens from 
Oldham and Montague, and from the latter, within a dis- 
tance of eight miles from Halifax, a brick (so called) of gold, a 
month’s work of fourteen men, valued at $7,666.92, taken from 
the “Rose” lode. Also sulphuret of and native copper, and 
ealena and silver,—with some fine specimens of granite and 
syenite, freestone and other rocks and minerals, awaiting science, 
industry and capital for their complete development. 
In like manner I desire to draw attention to the papers of my 
friend, Dr. J. Bernard Gilpin (now absent), on the Zoology of 
Noya Scotia. Dr. Gilpin has successively drawn upon the 
mammals of Nova Scotia (Indians included) for description, 
until he has left none remaining the history of which he has not 
noted. It is almost the same with the fishes that frequent or 
are native of our coast and inland waters. In a recent No. of 
the Transactions he shows us the salmon “from his first appear- 
auce as a minnow, and through all his changes, until lastly he 
gives us a drawing of his degeneration (degradation I should 
call it) in colour and leanness, and the almost grotesque changes 
in the: jaws of the male during spawning. He is also of opinion, 
against preconceived belief, (in which he is supported by Mr. 
Wilmot, of the fish-breeding establishment at Bedford,) that all 
our salmon are retained during the winter in our lakes and 
inland waters. 
J. Matthew Jones, F. L.S., formerly President of the Institute, 
to whom we are much indebted for papers on various subjects, 
has contributed, in an Appendix to the Transactions of 1879, a 
list of the Fishes of Nova Scotia, corrected to date, in the pre- 
paration of which he manifests great research, and acknowledges 
the generous assistance of his much esteemed friend, Prof. G. 
Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institute, Asst. United States 
Fish Commissioner. This paper will be much valued for the 
information given, and for future reference. 
Dr. Sommers, Prof. of Microscopy, and the Rev. E. Ball, of 
- Maccan, furnish botanical papers of merit and usefulness—the 
former on Nova Scotian Mosses, the last named gentleman on 
Aspidium Spinulosum—Grey. Dr. Sommers has also furnished 
a paper on Microscopy. 
Mr. H. Louis, Assoc. Roy. School of Mines, (a recent member 
of our Institute,) communicates a paper on “The Analysis of a 
New Mineral from Blomidon.” For this contribution to science, 
with reference to which Prof. Dana, to whom it was submitted, 
remarks that there is nothing like it in Mineralogy, (meaning 
