, C^' 



9tA PROCEEDINGS AND TMN^^ACTIONS 



OF THE 7^CXy7 c^.( 





HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 





TOL. I. 



1865-6. 



PART IV. 



CONTKNTS. 



Page. 



PllOCEEDINGS 1 to 7 



Donations to the Libkary 8 



List of Members 9 



Art. I. — On the Food Fishes of Nova Scotia. No. III. By J. Bernard Gilpin, 



M.D., M.R.C.S 11 



II. — On the Geological Features of the Bermudas. By J. Math. Jones,F.L.S. . 18 



III.— On Pisciculture. By Lieut.-Col. R.B. Sinclair, A.G.M 26 



IV. — Some Observations on the Fishing Gi'ounds and Fish of St. Margai-et's 



Bay, N. S. By Rev. .John Ambrose, M.A 33 



V. — The Aui'iferous Deposits of Nova Scotia. By P. S. Hamilton, Chief 



Commissioner of Mines 43 



VI. — Notes on the Weatlier at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during 1865. By Colonel 



W. J. Myers, F.B.M.S 51 



VII. — Notes on the Economic Miner 'logy of Nova Scotia. Pai't III. Lime- 

 stones and Marble. By Henrj' How, D.C.L., Professor of Chemistry, 



Kiny''s College, TVindsor 58 



VIII. — Remarks on the Pitch Lake of Trinidad. By Rev. .John Morton, La Have. 66 

 IX. — On some recent improvements in the Amalgamation process for extracting 

 Gold from Quartz. By George Lawson, Ph. D., L. L. D., Professor of 



Chemistry, Dalhousie College, Halifax 71 



X. — On the Food Fishes of Nova Scotia. No. IV. The Trout and Salmon. 



By J. Bernard Gilpin, M. D., M. R. G. S 76 



XI.— The Glacial Period in North America. By Thos. Belt, F. G. S 91 



XII. — ^Geology of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. By Rev. D. Honeyraan, I). 

 C. L., F. G. S., Member of the Geol. Soc. of France, Hon. Mer,ib. of 



Geol. Assoc. London, ^c 106 



XIII.— Nova Scotian Conifers. Part I. By Colonel Hardy 120 



XIV. — On the Land Birds of Nova Scotia. By A. Downs, Cor. Memb. Zool. 



Soc. of London 130 



Appendix : — 



Abstract of Meteorological Register, Halifax, 1865. By Colonel Myers. . 1S6 

 Some remarks upon the Red Indians of NeAvfoundland. By Mr. Elias 



Marrett. [Communicated by the President.] ] 39 



On North Atlantic Storms. By J. L. Hurdis 140 



Notice of Field Meeting at Ashbourne, June 26, 1866. By W. G 147 



Some account of the Life of Titus Smith. By William Smith. [Com- 

 municated by the President.] 150 



HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA : 

 PRINTED FOR THE INSTITUTE BY JAMES BOWES & SONS. 



SOLD BY THE SECRETARY, 109 GRANVILLE ST. 



Price OS. 9d. 





