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RANS ACTIONS // 



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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 



VOL. IV 



1875-76. 



PART II. 



CONTENTS. 



Pkoceedings 103-105 



List of Members 10G-108 



Transactions : — 



Art I. — Nova Scotian Geology — Superficial. By Rev. D. Honeyman, D. C. L., 



F. G. S., &c, Director of the Provincial Museum 109 



II. — On a Correspondence between the Flora of Nova Seotia and that of 

 Colorado and the Adjacent Territories. By John Sommers, M. D., 



Professor of Physiology in the Halifax Medical College 122 



III. — Natural History and the Fisheries. By A. P. Reid, M. D 131 



IV. — Notes on specimens of Iron Ores, &c, collected in Pictou County for the 



Philadelphia Exhibition. By Edwin Gixpin, M. A., F. G S., &c. . . 137 

 V. — The Indigenous Ferns of Nova Scotia. By Rev. E. H. Bail, Corres- 

 ponding Member of the Institute of Natural Science, Halifax 146 



VI. — The Semi-Daily Fluctuation of the Barometer. By Frederick Allison, 



M. A 157 



VII. — Notes on the Serpents of Prince Edward Island. By John T. Mellish, 



M. A 163 



VIII. — Notes on some Nova Scotian Plants. By George Lawson, Ph. D., 



LL. D., Professor of Chemistry, Dalhousie College 167 



XL — A Note on the Caribou. By R. Morrow 179 



Appendix: — 



Introduction to a Synopsis of the Flora of Nov-i Scotia* By J. Sommers, 



M. D., Prof, of Physiology &c, Halifax Medical College 181 



A Catalogue of the Flora of Nova Scotia, arr mged according to Gray's 



Manual of Botany for the U. States of An erica. By A. W. H. L.. . 184 

 Field Day. By W. C 223 



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