Notices of Memoirs — The British Association. 555 



the London-clay are occasionally marked in tlie same way. The 

 only traces of organisms found in washings from the Marl-band were 

 one or two prisms of Inoceramus, not a single Foraminifer being seen. 

 In conclusion, I would remark, that my suggestion as to the origin 

 of Marl-bands is not intended to apply to all those found in the 

 Chalk, but only to such as exhibit the characters which I have 

 detailed. 



iTOTIOES OIF" Is^iEIMIOHiS- 



British Association for the Advancement of Science; 

 Fifty-fourth Meeting, Montreal, 1884. 



Section C. — Geology. 

 President: W. T. Blanfoed, F.R.S., Sec. G.S. 



rice-Presidents: Professor J. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S. ; Professor J. Hall; 

 Professor T. Eupert Jones, F.E.S. ; A. R. C. Selwyn, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Secretaries: F. Adams, B.Ap.Sc. ; Professor E. W. Claypole, B.A., B.Sc. ; 



W. Topley ( Recorder J ; W. Whitaker, B.A. 



Titles of Papers read on August 28tli, 1884. 



Address by the President (TF. T. Blanforcl, F.B.S. See. G.S.). 



E. Gilpin, A.M., F.E.S. C, Inspector of Mines, Nova Scofm.— Eesults 

 of Past Experience in Gold Mining in Nova Scotia. (See p. 564.) 



A Comparison of the Distinctive Features of the Nova 



Scotian Coal-field. (See p. 467.) 



H. A. Budden. — On the Coals of Canada. (See p. 560.) 



Bev. D. Honeyman, D.C.L., F.B.S.G.— On the Geology of Halifax 

 Harbour, Nova Scotia. 



J. E. Panton, M.A. — Gleanings from Outcrops of Silurian Strata in 

 Pted River Valley, Manitoba. (See p. 474.) 



G. C. Broion, C.E. — The Apatite Deposits of the Province of Quebec. 



Frank Adams, M.Ap.Sc. — On the Occurrence of the Norwegian 

 "Apatitebringer" in Canada; with a few notes on the Micro- 

 scopic characters of some Laurentian Amphibolites. (See p. 518.) 



L. W. Bailey, M.A., F.E.S. C— On. the Acadian Basin in American 

 Geology. (See p. 478.) 



Prof. E. W. Claypole, B.A., B.Sc, F.G.S.—Geologicsl Survey_ of 

 Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania before and after the Elevation 

 of the Appalachian Mountains. (See p. 466.) 



W. H. Merritt.~On the Occurrence and Locations of the Economic 

 Minerals of Canada. (See p. 521.) 



(August 29, 1884.) 



Prof. J. S. Newherry, ilf.Z).— Phases of the Evolution of the North 

 American Continent. (See p. 522.) 



Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, M.A. — Marginal Kames. (See p. 565.) 



Dr. H. W. Crosshey. — Report of the Committee on the Erratic Blocks 

 of England, Wales, and Ireland. 



Hugh Miller.— On Fluxion Structure in Till. (See p. 472.) 



A. E. Selwyn, F.B.S. , Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. — 

 On a Theory of Ice-Action in the Formation of Lake Basins, 

 and in the Distribution of Boulders in Northern Latitudes. 



