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important fields of investigation to be found in Eastern Canada, 

 both as regards its surface geology and its agricultural resources." 

 Attention is naturally devoted in this report to glacial phenomena 

 of all kinds, the data demonstrating the existence and action of 

 floating ice in the Pleistocene are summed up, and changes of level 

 during the later Tertiary and post-Tertiary periods investigated. 

 The physical features of the Bay of Fundy with its remarkable 

 tides are discussed, and their origin explained. The account of the 

 Boulder-clay and boulders is followed by a long list of glacial 

 striae with their bearings and elevations. The latter are 

 illustrated in plates ii, iii, and iv. (Plate i has been left out 

 and plate iii duplicated.) The author traces out local Pleistocene 

 glaciers in the Bale des Chaleurs, the St. John Eiver Valley, 

 and the isthmus of Chignecto ; and, summarizing his results, 

 finds that at the period of the maximum extension of the ice, 

 there was a general radial movement from the main neve ground 

 of the north-east Appalachians, northward and eastward into the 

 St. Lawrence Valley, eastward into the south-western embayment 

 of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, south-eastward into the Bay of Fundy 

 and Atlantic Ocean, and southward and south-westward into United 

 States territory. The occurrence of peat- bogs, dunes, and salt- 

 marshes is noted, and a description given of them. Two sketch- 

 maps showing (in colour) the areas occupied by Pleistocene 

 glaciers, and the striation from local glaciers and floating ice, 

 accompany the report. 



Dr. G. Christian Hoffmann (pp. 1 R to 68 r) reports upon the 

 section of Chemistry and Mineralogy, while the division of Mineral 

 Statistics and Mining for the whole Dominion is embodied in 

 Mr. E. D. Ingall's report for 1893 and 1894 (pp. 1 s to 187 s). The 

 bulk of this last report is sufficient evidence of the great eff'orts no\^ 

 being put forth for the development of the mineral wealth of the 

 Dominion. 



Maps (eleven in all) of parts of British Columbia, Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, illustrating 

 the reports of those regions, are issued with the volume, at the end 

 of which there is a good index. 



Dr. Dawson and his coadjutors may well be congratulated upon 

 this valuable addition to our knowledge of the geology of the 

 Canadian Dominion. Arthur H. Foord. 



IV. — An Index to the Genera and Species of the Foraminifera. 

 By C. D. Sherborn. Part II : Non to Z. (City of Washington : 

 Smithsonian Institution, 1896.) 



THIS is No. 1031 of the "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections," 

 and completes C. D. Sherborn's Index of the Foraminifera, of 

 which the First Part was published in 1883, through the liberality of 

 the Smithsonian Institute. The dates of the writers on recent and fossil 

 Foraminifera and their multitudinous, often confused Nomenclature, 

 referred to in this elaborate Index, range from about 1565 to 1889. 

 Already, in the Geological Magazine, Mr. Sherborn's careful and 



