JuLY 14, 1899. ] 
this Canadian Society is divided into four 
sections, viz.: Section I., French poetry, 
literature, history, etc.; Section II., Eng- 
lish literature, history, poetry, etc.; Section 
Ill., Mathematical, physical and chemical 
sciences ; Section IV., Geological and bio- 
logical sciences. Among the more interest- 
ing papers read before this Society, in the 
field of letters and science, the following 
are noticed: ‘ First Three Years in Acadia 
under the Hnglish Régime,’ by P. Gaudet ; 
“Responsible Government under Lord Syd- 
enham,’ by Hon. Jos. Royal; ‘Quebec in 
1730,’ by Abbé Gosselin ; ‘Literary De- 
velopment in Canada,’ by Hon. J. W. 
Longley, Attorney General of Nova Scotia ; 
‘The Builders of Nova Scotia,’ by Sir John 
Bourinot; ‘Migration from the Canary Is- 
lands to the Eastern Coast of America,’ by 
John Campbell, LL.D. This paper indi- 
cates the presence of extensive Celtic and 
Basque elements in the languages of Peru, 
and traces these to the Canary Islands, 
where history finds Celtic colonists, and re- 
cently discovered inscriptions, presented in 
the paper, reveal the existence of petty 
Iberic kingdoms alongside of them. The 
Celts came from the Berber area of north- 
western Africa, and the Iberians from Spain. 
As the Toltees and Olmecs, these Iberic 
and Celtic colonists from the Canaries en- 
tered Mexico in the beginning of the eighth 
century A.D., and when expelled, in the 
middle of the eleventh century, they founded 
the Peruvian Empire of the Incas, but tradi- 
tion indicates that a portion of the Celtic 
crews from the Canaries landed in Florida, 
and that their descendants, after the time of 
European colonization, became known as 
Welsh Indians. Linguistic enquiries tend 
to trace the survivors of these to Arizona 
and California in the west, and to the al- 
most extinct Adaizans of Louisiana in the 
east. 
‘Hochelagans and Mohawks, a Link in 
Iroquois History,’ by W. D. Lighthall, M. 
‘ders, Director. 
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A.; ‘The Valley of the Ottawa, 1650-1700,’ 
by Benjamin Sulte. 
‘Historic Places and Events in New 
Brunswick,’ by Professor W. F. Ganong, 
Ph.D., M.A.; ‘ The Distinctive Characteris- 
tics of the Japanese and Chinese People,’ 
by Professor E. Hamilton Sharp (of Tokio 
University ). 
‘The Synchronism of Terrestrial Mag- 
netic Disturbances and Unusual Excitation 
in the Trails of Comets,’ by Arthur Harvey ; 
‘Tilustrations of Remarkable Secondary 
Tidal Undulations on January 1, 1899,’ 
by W. Bell Dawson; ‘ Canadian Geological 
Nomenclature,’ by Dr. R. W. Ells, Presi- 
dent of Section IV.; Studies on Cambrian 
Faunas No. 3, ditto No. 4, including the 
“Upper Cambrian Fauna of Mt. Stephen, 
British Columbia,’ and ‘Fragments of the 
Cambrian Faunas of Newfoundland,’ and 
by the same author ‘The Etcheminian 
Fauna of Smith’s Sound, Newfoundland,’ 
all by Dr. G. F. Matthew. The Mt. Stephen 
fossils are remarkable for their excellent 
mode of preservation. The author corre- 
lates the genera with European forms of 
Upper Cambrian age. New fossils from 
Newfoundland are described and recorded, 
others redescribed. The zoological position 
of the Hyolithidz is discussed, and the 
author concludes that they should be 
classed with the Tubicolous Worms. Fig- 
ures and descriptions will accompany these 
papers. 
‘Notes on some additions to the Molluscan 
Fauna of the Pacific Coast of Canada,’ by 
Rev. G. W. Taylor, M. A., of Nanaimo, 
B. C. The author gives notes on forty 
species not hitherto recognized. 
‘Origin and History of some new varie- 
ties of Wheat produced at the Dominion 
Experimental Farms,’ by Dr. William Saun- 
The most promising cross- 
bred varieties of wheat produced during the 
last ten years at the Experimental Farms 
of Canada are discussed at length. Re- 
