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taceans, zoophytes of new and remarkable species, corals, sponges, 

 echinoderms, of varieties unknown before, were presented to the gaze of 

 the visiters. All the forms were recent. Admirable drawings of these, 

 taken while recently captured, were exhibited, of great interest to natural- 

 ists. The observers could only see and admire. Geology was repre- 

 sented by a large boulder* dredged at 300 miles south of the coast 

 of Nova Scotia, which Dr. Honeyman, our Provincial Geologist, and 

 Secretary of the Institute, after careful examination, recognized as a 

 piece of Shelburne granite, carted off to sea in long past ages on an ice- 

 berg detached from the coast glacier of Nova Scotia, and deposited where 

 it was found, to be recovered as a curiosity in the nineteenth century of 

 the Christian era, and to help the solution of the glacial theory. There 

 were also specimens of ocean deposits, and cretaceous collections from 

 great depths. 



To mere scientists, these rare specimens were the most interesting 

 objects on board, and what they had especially come to see ; but there 

 were others which judging from the admiration they excited were equally 

 attractive. Each officer of the ship is entitled to a copy of every photo- 

 graph taken in connection with the expedition. f On adjourning for a 

 brief space to the ward-room, or as it may be styled in steamship parlance, 

 the saloon, which is tastefully fitted up, several books of photographs, of 

 all the remarkable scenes in the countries visited, and of the costumes 

 and customs of the people, from the rock of Gibraltar, Lisbon, the Azores, 

 Madeira, the Canary Isles and Bermudas, to Halifax, were politely ex- 

 hibited and eagerly scanned by the ladies, and explanations afforded by 

 the gentlemen connected with the ship, to the manifest pleasure and 

 gratification of both parties. This concluded the visit, which had extended 

 from 10 a. m. to between half past twelve and 1 p. m., when the party 

 left the ship highly gratified with all they had seen and heard, and the 

 courtesy extended to them, — and with an earnest hope that all the objects 

 of the Expedition might be successfully accomplished, bidding God speed 

 to the voyagers, and a happy return to their native country and friends. 



W. G. 



♦By some mistake this boulder, which Tvas to have been left as a present to ther 

 Halifax Museum, as illustrating the glacial action -which at one time had involved 

 Nova Scotia in a close embrace, as it now involves Greenland, was carried away in the 

 ship, and reposes somewhere at the entrance of the harbour — where like the Irishman's 

 *• tay-kettle," it is safe because we know where it is. 



t During the stay in Halifax, the Scientists, accompanied by Dr. Honeyman, took 

 several interesting photographs of the glacial striae, and other geological phenomena, 

 at Point Pleasant, and on the ehore of the Tower Road. 



