198 Canadian Record of Science. 



The following were deemed worthy of honorary mention 

 for their collections : — Miss McLea, Miss Eeid, Master Eric 

 Harrington and Master W. H. Shearer. 



Dr. Harrington took several readings of the barometer 

 at the hotel and on the summit of the mountain, and from 

 these it was estimated that the summit of the mountain was 

 about 850 feet above the hotel, and nearly 1 300 above the 

 railway at St. Hilaire station. 



Miscellaneous. 



Minbralogiol Notes. — At the February meeting of the Natural 

 History Society, Dr. Harrington called attention to a number of 

 points in connection with the forms, mode of occurrence, &c, of 

 certain Canadian minerals- One of the species noticed was beryl, 

 a mineral of somewhat rare occurrence in Canada. It was first 

 found by the late Dr. Bigsby at the east side of Rainy Lake, 230 

 miles north of Lake Superior, occurring in well defined, pale green 

 crystals in a porphyritic granite, f 



According to the Rev. Prof. Laflarume, crystals of beryl as much 

 as twelve to fifteen inches long and three inches or more in diame- 

 ter occur in the township of Jonquieres, on the Saguenay. J 



Another locality more recently discovered and which it is worth 

 while putting upon record is on lots 1 and 2 of the second range of 

 Maisonneuve, Berthier county, P. Q. The specimens from this 

 place are irregular masses and rough crystals, sometimes of consid- 

 erable size. They evidently occur in a coarse granite vein contain- 

 ing quartz, orthoclase, a trichinic feldspar which shows play of 

 colour in places, muscovite, garnet, tourmaline and samarskite ? 

 The locality is said to be the same as that from which the samars- 

 kite, analysed by Mr. Hoffmann, was derived \. The muscovite is 

 said to occur in plates of considerable size and in quantity suffici- 

 ent to be available for economic purposes- 



Attention was also called to the remarkably fine crystals of mo- 

 lybdenite obtained by Mr. R. H. G. Chapman from the township 

 of Aldfield, in Pontiac county, P.Q. They are short hexagonal 

 crystals which, if regarded as belonging to the hexagonal system, 

 consist of a hexagonal pyramid and the end face sometimes also 

 with faces of the hexagonal prism. The angle between 1he end 



t Geol. of Can. 1863, p. 492. 



\ Rep. Geol. Survey, 1882-84, D. p. 9. 



§ Rept. Geol, Survey, 1880-82- H. p. 1. 



