IV CONTENTS. 



TRANSACTIONS. 



Session of 1890-91 :— PaCxE. 



I. — Notes on the Surface Geology of South -Western Nova Scotia, by 



Pkof. L. W. Bailey, M. A., Ph.D 1 



II. — Steam Boiler Tests as a means of determining the calorific value 



of Fuels, by D. W. Robb, M. E 9 



III. — Analyses of Nova Scotia Coals and other Minei'als, by E. Gilpin, 



Jr., A.M., F. G. S , 19 



IV. — Remarks upon the coating of Iron with magnetic oxide, and a 

 suggestion of a probably new method of producing it, by John 



Forbes 27 



v.— The Magdalene Islands, by Rev. G. Patterson, D. D., F.R.S.C. 31 

 VI. — Notes on some explosions in Nova Scotia Coal Mines, by E. Gil- 

 pin, Jr., a. M., F. G. S 58 



VII. — On some Lecture Experiments illustrating Properties of Saline 



Solutions, by Prof J. G. MacGregor 71 



VIII.— Pictou Island, by A. H. Mackay, B. A., B. Sc, F. R. S. C 76 



IX. — Notes for a Flora of Nova Scotia, Part I, by Prof. G. Lawson, 



Ph. D., Ll. D 84 



X. — Notes on Railroad Location and Construction in Eastern Canada, 



by Wm. B. McKenzie, C. E Ill 



XL— Fertilizers on Sandy Soils, by Prof. H. W. Smith, B. Sc 122 



XII. — On the variation of density with concentration in weak aqueous 

 solutions of Cobalt and Nickel Sulphates, by A. M. Morri- 

 son, B. A 132 



Session of 1891-92:— 



I. — Notes on concretionary structure in various rock formations in 



Canada, by T. C. Weston, Geological Survey of Canada 137 



II. — Evidence of the post-glacial extension of the southern coast of 



Nova Scotia, by W. H. Brest 143 



III. — On the Visibility of Venus to the naked eye, by Principal A. 



Cameron, Yarmouth 1 48 



IV.— List of localities for Trap minerals in Nova Scotio, by the late 



Rev. Thos. MoCulloch, D. D 160 



V. — The Geology of Cape Breton, — The Lower Silurian, by E. Gilpin, 



Jr., Ll. D., F. R. S. C 167 



VI. — Notes on Nova Scotian Zoology, No. 2, by Harry Piers 175 



VII. — Catalogue of Silurian Fossils from Arisaig, Nova Scotia, by Henry 



M. Ami, M. A., F. G. S 185 



VIII.— On the graphical treatment of the inertia of the connecting-rod, 



by Prof. J. G. MacGregor, D. Sc 193 



IX. —On the nidification of the Winter Wren in Nova Scotia, by Harry 



Piers 203 



X.— The Fletcher Stone, by K. G. T. Webster, B.A., Yarmouth, N.S. 208 

 XL — Supplementary notes on the destroyers of submerged wood in 



Nova Scotia, by M. Murphy, D. Sc, Provincial Engineer. . . 215 



