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Miscellaneous Notes 61 



Proceedings of the Natural History Society 63 



Forests of Canada. {With Map.) Robert Bell, 



M.D., LL.D 65 



Mound-Builders. Rev. W. J. Smyth 77 



Geology and Geologists in New Brunswick. Professor 



L. W. Bailey 93 



Studies in the Comparative Physiology of the Heart. 



(Abstracts.) T. Wesley Mills, M.A., M.D., &c, 



Professor of Physiology in McGill University 97 



Aboriginal Trade in the Canadian Northwest. C. N. 



Bell 102 



Variation of Water in Trees and Shrubs. ( With, Cut.) 



Professor D. P. Penhallow 105 



A Natural System in Mineralogy. Dr. T. Sterry Hunt 1 1 6 

 Physical Characteiistics of the Ainos. Professor D. 



P. Penhallow.... 119 



Meteorological Observations for 1885. Professor C. 



H. McLeod " 128 



Miscellaneous Notes 131 



Proceedings of the Natural- History Society 134 



Comparative Physiology of the Heart. (Concluded.) 



Professor T. Wesley Mills 137 



Our Northwest Prairies. A. T. Drummonl 145 



Protection of North American Birds. A. H. Mason, 



F.C.S 153 



Montreal Drinking Water. Arthur Weir 171 



Polyembryony. Professor D. P. Penhallow 177 



Proceedings of Natural History Society 178 



Annual Address of President. Sir Wji. Dawson 180 



Miscellaneous Notes 1!»8 



Presidential Address. Sir Wm. Dawson -...-.< 201 



Relations of the Earth's Rocks to Meteorites. Pro- 

 fessor H. A. Newton 228 



Additional Notes upon the Tendrils of Cucurbitacea?. 



Professor D. P. Penhallow 241 



Discovery of a Pteraspidian Fish in the Silurian 



Rocks. G.F.Matthew 251 



