CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. 



On the Petrographical Relations of the Laurentian Lime- 

 stones, Etc. Louis Caryl Gratox, B.Se 1 



Progress of Botany in the 19th Century. Robert Camp- 

 bell, M.A., D.D 39 



Geology of St. Helen's Island. B. A. W. Nolan and J. D. 



Dixox 53 



Notable Display of Northern Lights. Charles J. Stuart. 67 

 Trees of Montreal Island. F. C. Embersox. M.A 78 



Book Notices: 



Catalogue of Canadian Plants. John Macotxn, M.A. 



Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology, Part II, on 

 the Vertebrata of the Midcretaceous of the North 

 West Territory. Hexry Fairfield Osborxe and 



Lawrexce M. Lambe 84 



Canadian Fungi. Robert Campbell, M.A., D.D 89 



New Genera of Batrachian Footprints of the Carboniferous 



System in Eastern Canada. G. F. Matthew, LL.D., 



F.R.S.C 99 



Resurrection Plant — Lewisia rediviva Pursh. A. J. Hill, 



M.A., C.E Ill 



The Theory of the Formation of Sedimentary Deposits, a 



Deductive Study in Geology and Its Application. 



Alfred W. G. Wilson, M.A., Ph.D 112 



Proceedings of Natural History Society, Montreal 133 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. D. P. 



Pexhallow. M.Sc, F.R.S.C 139 



Book Notices: 



Catalogue of Canadian Birds; Parts I. and II. Johx 



Magoux, M.A 142 



The Canadian Oyster. E. W. MacBride, M.A., Sc.D 145 



Some Mushrooms Found in Canada. Mary Vax Horxe . . 157 



