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a list l)y Mr. James Fletcher, of diurnal lepidoptera, a sliort list of 

 fishes by Dr. T. H. Bean, and a description of a new mouse by Dr. C. 

 H. Merriam (see page 11 of this number.) In the fifth appendix Mr. 

 F. D. Adams describes the mici'oscopical characters of some of the 

 rocks collected ; the sixth contains meteorological observations, and the 

 seventh is a survey of the astromomical observations taken along the 

 route of travel, upon which the positions of places, as given on the map^ 

 depend. 



It is, naturally, impossible here to do more than mention some of 

 the main headings of this valuable report, which, constituting as it does,. 

 the first authentic or systematic account of a vast region, of which very 

 little has up to the present time been known, cannot fail to be of great 

 intei'est to all. This region, even that portion of it whicli lies to the 

 North of the 60th parrallel, appears to be possessed of considerable 

 jiatural resources, and is by no means the sub-Artie waste, which some 

 theorists have assumed it to be in advance of its exploration. 



J. F. 



Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. — Part 3 — On Some 

 Fossils from the Triassic Eocks of British Columbia — By 

 J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S., F.R.S.C, &c. 



Distributed advance copies of this contribution, published by the 

 Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, contain, besides a 

 history of the discoveries of Triassic fossils in Canada, notes on and 

 descriptions of nineteen species, of which the following are new to 

 science : 



1. Spiriferiiia horealis. 8. Popanoceras \McConnellL 



2. Tei'ebratula Liardensis. 9. Acrochordiceras ? Carlottense. 



3. Monotis ovalis. 10. Trachyceras Canadense. 



4. Halohia occidentalis. I 11. Arniotites Vancoioverensis. 



12. " sp. indt, 



13. " or Geltites. 

 14:. Badiotites Carlottensis. 



5. Trigonodus ? productus. 



6. Margarita Trkissica. 



7. Nautilus Liardensis. 



The remaining _yiy(2 species have been " identified with prei^iously 

 described species." They are Terehratida Humholdtensis, Monotis 

 subcircularis, Halohia Lommelli, Arcestes Gabhi, Aidacoceras Carlot- 

 tense. 



The specimens wei-e for the most part collected by the director and 

 and officers of the Geological Survey during their explorations, and in- 

 clude the following collections: 1875, Dr. Selwyn, Peace River, lat. 

 56° 10', and long. 122° 10'; 1877, Mr. J. Hunter. Upper Pine River, 



