^^^"^^ SEPT., 1896. 



VOL. X, No. 6. 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



CONTENTS. 



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1. An Ottawa Naturalist's Journey Westward— Andrew Halkett 113 



2. 01)ituary Notices— <i) Sir Joseph Prestwich ; (2) G. A. Daubr^e 118 



3. The Chemical Laboratories at the Central Experimental Farm 119 



3. Notes, Reviews and Comments.- GeoZogi/ ; (1) New Alkali hornblende, Hastings Co., Ont.— 

 Adams & Harrisqtok ; (2) Eastern Townships fossils— Ami ; (3) Saint Peter Sandstone— 

 Sardeson; (4) Magnesian series fossils— Sardeson; (5) Pleistocene shore-lines— Chalmers; 

 6. Newfoundland Geology— WESTon ; T.The first fauna of the Earth— James; (8) Black River 

 limestone fossils, Nipiss'ing— Winchell ; (9) Bohemillidai— Beecher ; (10) Fossil Fishes, 

 Scotland— Traquair; (11) Carb. hmestone fossils— Huide; (12) Cambrian Faunas, Micro- 

 discus Matthew ; (13) Archasan Bocks- Selwyn ; (14) Laurentian dykes— Miller and 

 Brock ; (15) Minerals and the Roentgen Rays— Miller ; (16) Graptolites— Wiman ; (17) 

 Fossil fishes, Devonian of Ohio— Clatpolk ; (18) Geology of Yucatan— Sapper ; (19) Log- 

 like concretions— Todd ; (20) Geography from Nature— Dodge ; (21) Mattawa and Ottawa 

 Valleys, Geology— Taylor ; (22) Laurentian Lakes— Upham ; (23) The Algonquin and 

 Nipissing Beaches. Botany : Ottawa E. D. Agricultural Society 120 



5. Facts about the Great Lakes 127 



6. International Geological Congress 128 



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