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gold-bearing region is then described. This includes the history of 

 mining in the Gilbert River, River du Loup, Famine River, Mill 

 River, Slate Creek, Main Chaudiere Valley, Little Ditton River, etc. 

 The probable source of the alluvial gold is then given by the author. 



"The Mineral Resources of New Brunswick," by Professor L. W. 

 Bailey, forms Report M of this volume and is a most welcome report. 

 This province ouglit to receive as well as give more attention to the 

 materials of economic value, which occur in the earth's crust as it is 

 developed in that portion of the Dominion of Canada by the sea. 

 The geological formations, in which iron, copper, nickel, antimony, 

 lead, silver, manganese, coal, bituminous shales, graphite, peat, 

 gypsum, granites, marbles, dolomites, ornamental stones, infusorial 

 earths, mineral springs, and various other materials of economic value 

 to man are to be found, are described, and the mode of occurrence of 

 these useful materials given, together with their locations. A map of 

 the minerals of the province accompanies the report. 



Report S contains the customary and useful report of the " Section 

 of Mineral Statistics and Mines," by E. D. Ingall. It contains up- 

 wards of 200 pages of valuable notes on all the economic minerals of 

 Canada from all the provinces, and tables of their value and of the 

 amount produced and exported or consumed at home. 



The volume contains a very complete index, wliich adds greatly to 

 its value. 



H. M. Ami. 



—Ex. Science, New Series, Vol. XI. , No. 268, pp. 266-268. 



