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We extend to Prof. Hall our sincere congratulations troin 

 this side of the line and do ourselves much honour in joining 

 the number of those who have testified to the marvellous amount 

 of work done so well by such a distinguished student of science. 

 His is an unprecedented career in which we all rejoice. H.M.A. 



Canu. F. — " Essai de PaleogeograiJh.ie." Atlas, Paris, 1895. 

 This is a very interesting volume giving the restoration of the 

 contours of ancient seas in France and adjoining countries. It 

 treats of the geographical outline of that country in each suc- 

 cessive period beginning with the Devonian period through the 

 Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic times on to more recent 

 periods, shows the encroachment and recession of the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean margins — also the various lands 

 and islands of those bye-gone seas. It is a remarkably fine work 

 of reference for similar researches and deductions in other coun- 

 tries. H.M.A. 



OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Last Excursion of the Season to Galeita, Ont. 



September 26. — The third and last excursion of the 

 season was held to Galetta and Marshall's Bay on the Missis- 

 sippi and Ottawa rivers respectively, where a pleasant and en- 

 joyable time was spent in the untrodden paths of nature. The 

 party left Ottawa by 8 a.m. train over the Ottawa Arnprior & 

 Parry Sound Railway, and passed through the townships of 

 Huntley, March and Fitzroy. At Carp station a short halt was 

 called to allow the members present to examine the Pleistocene 

 gravels occurring immediately south of the station and to collect 

 some of the fossil remains entombed in them. Shortly after this 

 the pretty little village of Galetta was reached and the road taken 



