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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 

 VOL.1 V. 1875-76. , PART I. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Proceedings 1 to 3 



List of Members 3 to 4 



Transactions : — 



Art. I. — A Month Among the Geological Formations of New Brunswick. By 

 Rev. D. Honeyman, D. C. L., F. G. S., Director of the Provin- 

 cial Museum, Halifax 5 



II. — On the Smaller Cetaceans Inhabiting the Bay of Fundy and Shores of 



Nova Scotia. By J. Bernard Gilpin, A. B., M. D., M. R. C. S. 21 



III. — Spontaneous Generation, or Predestinated Generation. By Andrew 



Dewar 34 



IV. — Halifax Meteorology, 1874. By Frederick Allison, M. A., Chief 



Meteorological Agent 42 



V. — Nova Scotian Geology — Ant con-she County. By the Rev. Dr. Honey- 

 man, D. C. L., F. G. S., &c, Director of the Provincial Museum, 

 Halifax, J\T. S 47 



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



M. R. C. S 80 



VII.— The Southern Synclinal of the Pictou Coal Field. By Edwin Gilpin, 



M. A., F. G. S., &c 89 



VIII — On the Analysis of Two Spring Hill Coals. By Henry How 98 



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