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geology we have Mr. Gilpin’s accounts of the faults and 
foldings of the coal-field of Pictou, Nova Scotia; Sir Wm. 
Dawson's valuable addition to what he has already done in 
regard to our fossil flora; Prof. Bailey’s notes on the 
physiography and geology of Aroostook, Me., in connection 
with regions of New Brunswick and Quebec, etc. Mr. 
McKellar communicates a paper on the corelation of the 
Animikie and Huronian rocks of Lake Superior; Dr. Franz 
Boas, on the geography and geology of Baffin Land, with 
interesting observations on ice action. Mr. Lucien Turner 
describes the physical and geological character of the 
Ungava district of Labrador, fully three-fourths of which is 
bare rock, mainly Laurentian, showing disintegration of 
the higher altitudes, while the lower and older rocks are 
smoothly polished by glacial action; the climate is severe, 
the vegetation dwarfed. Prof. Spencer, formerly of King’s 
College, Windsor, communicates two papers on Glacial 
Erosion in Norway, and the theory of Glacial Motion. In 
the first he describes from personal observation the three 
largest snowfields in Norway (one of which has an area of 
580 square miles), all of which send down glaciers to within 
50 to 1200 feet of the sea; in the second, he adopts the old 
(J. D. Forbes) theory of fluidity as the most acceptable 
explanation of the motion of glaciers. The petroleum field 
of Ontario, its history, theory of origin, and the operations 
carried on, are all described by Dr. Bell, the president of 
the section. Mr, Matthew, of St. John, continues his illus- 
trations of the fauna of the St. John group, and describes 
the remarkable trilobite, found by himself, apparently the 
largest hitherto discovered, which he appropriately honours 
with the titlke—Paradoxides Regina. 
The President then remarked: ‘ At the double risk of 
proving tedious to hearers and unsatisfactory to authors, | 
have given this sample of a year’s work to indicate the 
nature and extent of the researches in which our members 
are engaged. Referring to the uses of scientific periodicals 
and societies devoted to special branches, or with local 
objects, it was a main object of the Royal Society to foster 
