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of GraptoHtes and other Fossils of Quebec Age in the Black Slates 

 of Little Metis, Que." The paper contains notes on, and descriptions 

 of, Graptolites and other fossils from a small but interesting collec- 

 tion made by Sir William Dawson in rocks closely related to those 

 from which the remarkable fossils were described conjointly with 

 Dr. George Jennings Hinde. 



Mr. J. F. Whiteaves, palseontologist and zoologist to the Dominion 

 Geological Survey, read two papers, and introduced a third by Mr. 

 Lawrence Lambe. In his first paper on the " Fossils of the Hudson 

 Eiver Formation in Manitoba," Mr. Whiteaves gives an historical 

 sketch of the discovery and collection of fossils of that age, by Dr. 

 E. Bell, in 1873; by Dr. Ells, in 187.5; Dr. Bell, later, in 1879; 

 and by Messrs. T. C. Weston and D. B. Dowling, in 1884 and 

 1891-92, respectively. The object of the present paper is to give 

 as complete a list as possible of the fossils of this formation ia 

 Manitoba. There are now as many as sixty species in the museum 

 of the Survey at Ottawa. Mr. Whiteaves's second paper deals with 

 "Notes on the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of the Dominion." 

 Mr. Larabe's paper contains an account of the results obtained by 

 that gentleman from a microscopical examination of recent sponges 

 collected in the waters of the Pacific, along the British Columbia 

 or Canadian coast. The paper is entitled, " On Some Sponges from 

 the Pacific Coast of Canada and Behring Sea." It will be illus- 

 trated with drawings made by the authoi', who is artist to the 

 Geological Survey Department. 



Professor L. W. Bailey, Ph.D., of Frederickton, New Brunswick, 

 gives the result of his " Observations on the Geology of South- 

 western Nova Scotia," in the counties of Shelburne and Yarmouth. 

 A careful description of the various contacts and occurrences of the 

 auriferous rocks and other masses follows a review of the geological 

 structure of the district in question. A geological map accompanies 

 the paper. 



" On Palaeozoic Corals " is the title of Professor Chapman's con- 

 tribution to palajontological science. It is an attempt to simplify 

 the determinations of genera in the so-called ''Tabulated and Eugose 

 Corals of Palaiozoic Eocks." 



Dr. Wesley Mills's paper on "Hibernation and Allied States in 

 Animals." 



Dr. George Lawson presented two important contributions to 

 botanical research. The one bore " On the Literary History and 

 Nomenclature of the Canadian Ferns," the other consisted of "Notes 

 Supplementary to the Eevision of Canadian Eanunculacete." 



Eev. Moses Harvey, of St. John's, Newfoundland, and a new 

 Fellow of the Societ}', contributed a most important paper " On the 

 Artificial Propagation of Marine Food-Fishes and Edible Crustaceans." 



Mr. James Fletcher, F.L.S., and Dominion entomologist, con- 

 tributed two papers in that branch of work. The first was entitled, 

 " Eeport on a Collection of Coleoptera made on the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands by Eev. J. H. Keen and J. Fletcher"; the second, "The 

 use of Arsenites as Insecticides." H. M. A. 



