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Eagle Lake District, accompany the report and are coloured 

 geologically from information obtained from the Geological 

 Survey at Ottawa. 



Mr. Archibald Blue's contributions deal more especially 

 with the economic and commercial interests of the province 

 which go hand in hand with the mode of occurrence, value and 



best methods of working the natural resources we possess. 



H. M. A. 



Geological Society of America. — The ninth annual 

 winter meeting of the Society will be held in the city of Wash- 

 ington, D.C., on December 29th, 30th, 31st, 1896. Details of 

 the meeting will be announced in a circular to be issued to the 

 Fellows. H. L. FairChild, Secretary. 



The Iroquois High School Natural Science Asso- 

 ciation of which there was a notice in last year's Naturalist 

 has begun another season's work. The membership of the asso- 

 ciation is increasing and the interest taken by its members very 

 keen. The officers form the ensuing year are, Hon. President, 

 W. A. Whitney, M. A.; President, Principal J. A. Jackson, 

 B. A.; Vice-President, Miss Maggie Gibbons ; Sec'y-Tres., J. M. 

 Warren, B. A.; Council, U. McAllister, J. H. Donnelly, A. E. 

 Lidstone ; Science Master, R. H. Knox, B. A.; Curator of the 

 Museum, Geo. Clarke ; Patrons, J. W. Conklin, Esq., Rev. T. J. 

 Stiles! and Dr. C. W. Bouck. At a recent meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation the Editor of the OTTAWA NATURALIST was elected an 

 honorary member of the Association. 



Earthquake. — On the seventeenth day of September, 

 1896, at seven o'clock in the morning, and at Bay St. Paul, 

 below Cape Tourmente, Que., a rather severe shock of earth- 

 quake is reported to have been very generally felt. It lasted 

 one minute. — H.M.A. 



