INDEX. 



Part I. 



Art. "'-k' 



I. — Inaugural Address. By P. G. Hill, President 1 



II. — On the Common Herring {Clupea elongata). By J. Bernard Gilpin, A.B,. 



M.D., M.R.C S 4 



III. — Nocturnal Life of Animals in the Forest. By Capt. C. Hardy, Royal 



Artillery 11 



IV. — Some rpcent movements of the Earth's surface. By Thos. Belt. 19 



V. — On the Characteristic Fossils of different Coal Seams in Nova Scotia. By 



Henry Poole SO 



VI. — Contributions to the Ichthyology of Nova Scotia. By J. Matthew Jones, 



F. L. S 45 



VII. — Gold and its separation from other Minerals. By Abraham Gesner, M.D. 



F. G.S 54 



VIII.— The Festival of the Dead. By R. G. Haliburton, F.S.A Gl 



IX. — On Magnesia- Alum, or Pickeringite. By Professor How, D.C.L., King's 



College, Windsor 85 



X. — Occurrence of a Trilobite in the Lower Carboniferous Limestone of Hants 



Co. By Professor How, D.C.L., King's College, Windsor 87 



XI. — On the Occurrence of Littorina liUorea on the coast of Nova Scotia. By 



John R. Willis 88 



Part II. 

 I. — On the Soricinee of Nova Scotia. By J. Bernard Gilpin, A. B., M. D., 



M. R. C. S 1 



II.— On the Caplin, {Mallotus villosus.) By Capt. C. Hardy, E.A 4 



III. — Contributions to the Natural History of the Bermudas, Part I. MoUusca. 



By J. Matthew Jones, F.L.S 14 



IV. — On the Waters of the Mineral Springs of Wilmot, Nova Scotia. By Profes- 

 sor How, D.C.L 26 



y. — Some account of the Storm Petrel — Sea Serpent — Albicere, 4"C., as observed 



at St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia .... 34 



VI. — The Rocks in the Vicinity.— By William Gossip 44 



VIL — On Introduced Species of ISlova Scotia. By J. Bernard Gilpin, A.B., M.D. 



M. R. C. S 60 



VIII.— Notes on the Weather at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during 1863. By Colonel 



W.J.Myers 68 



IX. — On the Floraof Canada. By George Lawson, Ph.D., L.L.D 75 



X. — Notes on the Economic Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. By Henry How, D.C.L. 78 



XL— On the PearL By J. Hunter Duvar , 86 



XII. — List of Butterflies observed in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



By Thomas Belt 87 



XHL — Meteorological Register for 1863. By Col. Myers 93 



XIV. — On the Occurrence of the Kjoekkenmoedding on the shores of Nova Scotia. 



By W. G 94 



