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Magdalen Islands, describing their Lower Carboniferous Limestone, 

 Sandstone, and Gypsum, and finding some of the marine fossils 

 characteristic of the Lower Carboniferous. He also supposes that 

 the islands contain some overlying red sandstones of Triassic age 

 (1879-80). 



Prof. Bailey, F.R.S.C, has continued his work in unravelling the 

 complexities of the older formations in Southern and Northern New 

 Brunswick, and has done good service in this matter, and also in 

 correlating these rocks with those of Quebec (Reports, 1877 to 1888). 



Mr G. F. Matthew, F.R.S.C, has contributed a report on the 

 Pleistocene Fossils of New Brunswick, of which he has catalogued 

 57 species, finding some also in Nova Scotia, where they had not 

 previously been recognised (1877-78). The mo.st important work of 

 Mr Matthew, however, has been that on Cambrian fossils, the results 

 of which he has contributed in successive communications to the Royal 

 Society of Canada (Trans., vols. i. to vii.) 



Mr R. Chalmers has been appointed to the important work of 

 studying the Pleistocene and superficial formations. In this he has 

 done good service, more especially in ascertaining the local character 

 of the drift, and tracing it from its centres of distribution (1885 to 

 1888). Mr Chalmers has also published valuable papers in the 

 Trans. R. S. C. and in the Canadian Record of Science. 



Mr H. M. Ami, F.G.S., has published lists of New Brunswick 

 Fossils in the Report of 1889. 



In economic matters the reports of Mr Coste of the Dominion 

 Survey, and of the Provincial Inspector of Mines for Nova Scotia, 

 Mr Edwin Gilpin, F.G.S., have kept up to date our information as 

 to the discoveries and developments, more especially in gold, iron, 

 and coal (Annual Reports; Records of Mining Institute of Great 

 Britain ; Society of Mining Engineers, U.S. ; Can. So. Engineers). 



In addition to the official reports, I may mention the papers on 

 " Acadian Scorpions and Insects," by Dr Scudder, Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Society of Boston ; and on " Entomostraca," by Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones, London Geol. Magazine, 1884. Mr Francis Bain has worked 

 with much success in the Permian fossils of Prince Edward Island. 

 Mr Masters of Ithaca has recently studied the lithological character 

 of some Triassic and other traps (American Geologist, March 1890). 



The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada have, since its 

 institution in 1882, contained several important contributions to the 

 Geology of the Maritime Provinces. In addition to those of Mr 

 Matthew already referred to, which extend from vols. i. to vii., I may 

 mention here an important paper by the late Mr Murray, Director of 



