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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 



VOL. IL 



1867-8. 



PART II. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Proceedings , , , 1 to 3 



Donations.. 4 



List of Members . , , = , ,.,.... 5 6 



Traksactions : — 



Art, I. — Oontrihutions to the Natural Histury of the Bei-madas. Bj J. 



Matthew Jones, F. L. &. . ^ 7 



II.— On the Food Fishes of Novii Scotia. No. VI. Bj J. Bernard 



Gilpin, A. B.,M, D.,M. R. G.S 17 



III.-rNoies on the Economic Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. By Prof. How, 

 D. C. L., Universitii of King's Collerje, Windsor, N. S. Part 4. 

 Gypsum and Aniiydrite, and the Borates^ and otlier Miticrah they 



contain , 26 



lY. — Magnetism, and its Connection with the Telegraph. By Thomas R. 



Fraser, M. D 36 



V. — Oyster Culture in France. By T. F. Knight 42 



VI. — On the Meteorology of the Caledonia Coal Mine, Little Glace B-tvy, 



Cape Breton, in 1867. By Henry Poole 51 



VII. — On the Mammalia of Nova Scotia. By J. Bernard Gilpin, A. B., 



M.D., M. R. C S. No. 4........ 58 



VIII. — On some of the Rarer Birds of Nova Scotia. By ■!. Matthew Jones, 



F. L. S.... 70 



IX. — Notes on the Weather at Halifax, N. S., during the year 1867. Bv 



Frederick Allison '. 74 



X. — On the Fishes of St. Margaret's Bay. By Rev. John Ambrose... ... 87 



Xl. — On Submerged Forest Trees in Cumberland Basin. By P. S. 



Hamilton 04 



Appendix: — 



Meteorological Record. By Frederic Allison , , loO 



On Hyla Squirella — a Batrachian, new to the Province lOi 



Crudf Notes on Storms, and how to Note them. By J. L. Hurdis, 



Corresp. Member of the Institute 102 



iLtiLIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA— WM. GOSSIP, 87 GRANVILLE STREET. 



LONDON— REEVES & TURNER, 196 STRAND. 



1869. 



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