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These last five are found on Paget Sound, W. T., and in British 

 Columbia. There are very many dialects of these. 



8. Bella Coola or Viloula — Dr. Frank Boaz is making a special 

 study of these Indians at present. See Mittheilungen aus der 



Ethnologischen Abtheilung der Museum zu Berlin. 



9. Chinook Jargon — (1) " Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or 

 Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast," 1883, 35 pages. 

 T. N. Hibben it Co., Victoria, B.C. (2) Dr. George Gibb.s, Report on 

 Chinook, etc., published by Smithsonian Institute, 1863, Vol I. 

 Contributions to North American Ethnology. 



10. Bilhoola — A brief grammatical s-ketch of this dialect is 

 found in "Science," of New York, March 5th, 1886, by Dr. Frank 

 Boaz. 



11. Nisqually — A Vecabulary was prepared by Dr. George 

 Gibbs and published in Vol I. Contributions to North American 

 Ethnology. 



12. Clallam and Lummi — A Dictionary prepared by Dr. George 

 Gibbs and published in Shea's Library of American Linguistics. 



13. Snohomish and Cliehalis — Comparative Vocabularies of the 

 Tribes of British Columbia by Tolmie and Dawson, 1884, publi.shed 

 in Montreal. 



Further study and observation may be productive of more inform- 

 ation on this subject. 



John McLean, M.A. 

 Blood Reserve. 

 ]\[acleod, Alberta. 



SYNOPSIS OF A PAPER READ BEFORE THE BIOLOGICAL 



SECTION BY DR. GARNIER ON A NEW SPECIES 



OF MENOBRANCHUS. 



Dr. Garnier presented an account of a species of Menobranchus 

 which he believes to be new, and dedicates to Mons. F. Lataste as 

 J/. Latastei. Prof. Cope, to whom a sample was submitted, regards 

 it as a well-marked variety of the ordinary northern Menobranch 

 Necturus lateralis, Baii-d, which would accordingly bear the name 

 N. lateralis var. Latastei. Garnier. 



The following are the points which Dr. Garnier thinks entitle the 



