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This paper is the Result of a critical examination of species of 

 carboniferous ostracoda which were collected by Mr. A. H, Foord, late 

 of the Geological Survey, Canada, in 1884, at the Mabou coal field, and 

 which were sent to Prof. Jones in 1886. The following forms have 

 been recognized or described, the new one, Carbonia Jahulina, var^ 

 altilis, being well illustrated by four wood-cuts : — 



1. Carbonia fabuUna, J. and K. 



2. " " var. altilis. IST. A-ar. 



3. " C?) bairdioides, J. and K. 



The precise statigraphical position of these ostracoda is given from 

 Mr. H. Fletcher's Report, addressed to the Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, in which a list of the associated species and other 

 fossils described by Mr. Whiteaves is also given. H. M. A. 



" Glaciation of Eastern Canada." By Robert Chalmers, of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey. Geological Magazine, Dec. Ill, 

 ^^ol. VI, No. 299, p. 211. London, May, 18^9. 



This contribution by Mr. Chalmers, a member of our Club, is a 

 preliminary note in advance, of an exhaustive paper on the '• Glaciation 

 of Eastern Canada," which " will shortly appear in the Canadian Record 

 of Science, Montreal." It presents the subject in a clear and succinct 

 form, pointing out the conclusions which are at variance with those 

 held by extreme glacialists, and shows how " the theoiy of local 

 glaciers upon the more elevated portions of the country and icebergs or 

 floating ice striating the lower coastal areas during the post-Tertiary 

 submergence of these, as maintained by Sir William Dawson, will serve 

 to explain all the observed phenomena." Mr. Chalmers's conclusions 

 are based on data collected by himself for many years in connection 

 with his geological studies on that " battle ground, so to speak, of the 

 advocates of the two rival theories of continental glaciation and floating- 

 ice," together with, the vast amount of notes obtained by Sir William 

 Logan, Sir William Dawson, Dr. G. M. Dawson, Dr. Bell. Dr. Ells, Dr. 

 Lawson, Messrs. Alexander Murray, H. Fletcher, A. P. Low, and others 

 of the Geological Survey staff", and the other in Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, Quebec and the Archaean areas as far north as Hudson Bay. 

 Mr. Chalmers has found that the evidences point naturally and clearly 

 to the action of local glaciers and floatinsf ice as the agencies which 



