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VOL. III. 18T2-7B. PART III. 



CONTENTS. 



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Proceedings 187 to 190 



List of Members 191 , 192 



Transactions :~ 



Art. L— Notes on the Geology of Nova Scotia and Cape Bretar. By Rev. D. 

 HoNEYMAN, D. C. L., F. G. S.; &c., Director of >he Provincial 



Museum *. , , . . 193 



II. — On the Eagles of Nova Scotia. By J. Bernard Gilpin, A. B., M. D., 



M. R. e. S 202 



III. — The Great American Desert. Y^j Henry S. Poole, -Esq , F. G. S., &c.. 



Govt. Inspector of Mines 208 



IV. — On the Stone Age of Nova Scotia. By J. Bernard Gilpin, A.B., M.D., 



M. R. C. S 220 



V. — On the Metamorphism of Rocks in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. By 



Rev. D. Honeyman, D. C. L., F. G. S , &c 231 



VL — On the Vegetation of the Bermudas. By J. Matthew Jones, F. L. S. . 237 



VII. — The Grouping of the Pictpu Coal Seams, By Edwin Gilpin 281 



VIII. — On the .Meteorology of Caledonia Mines, Little Glace Bay, Cape Breton. 



By H. Poole, Esq , M. E. . . . : 285 



IX.— The Affinity of Races. By Wm. Gossip 288 



X. — On the Progress of Weather Knowledge. By Fred. Allison, Esq 305 



XL— The History of a Boulder. By Rev. D. Honeyman, D.C.L., F.G.S., &c. 321 

 XIL — The Economy of Timber and Preservation of Structures from Fire and 



Decay. By A. P. Reid, M. D., M. R. C S., Edin., &<k,,&c 326 



Appendix — 



Conver^^ione ; . . , 334 



The " Challenger " Scientific Expeditiogjgfeit to Halifax. W. G '. 335 



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