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Little Glace Bay, Pictou and other mines ; gold specimens from 

 Oldham and Montague, and from the latter, within a dis- 

 tance of eight miles from Halifax, a brick (so called) of gold, a 

 month's work of fourteen men, valued at $7,666.92, taken from 

 the "Rose" lode. Also sulphuret of and native copper, and 

 galena and silver, — with some fiue specimens of granite and 

 syenite, freestone and other rocks and minerals, awaiting science, 

 industry and capital for their complete development. 



In like manner I desire to draw attention to the papers of my 

 friend, Dr. J. Bernard Gilpin (now absent), on the Zoology of 

 Nova Scotia. Dr. Gilpin has successively drawn upon the 

 mammals of Nova Scotia (Indians included) for description, 

 until he has left none remaining the history of which he has not 

 noted. It is almost the same with the lushes that frequent or 

 are native of our coast and inland waters. In a recent No. of 

 the Transactions he shows us the salmon "from his first appear- 

 ance as a minnow, and through all his changes, until lastly he 

 gives us a drawing of his degeneration (degradation I should 

 call it) in colour and leanness, and the almost grotesque changes 

 in the jaws of the male during spawning. Lie is also of opinion, 

 against preconceived belief (in which he is supported by Mr. 

 Wilmot, of the fish-breeding establishment at Bedford), that all 

 our salmon are retained during the winter in our lakes and 

 inland waters. 



J. Matthew Jones, F. L. S., formerly President of the Institute, 

 to whom we are much indebted for papers on various subjects, 

 has contributed, in an Appendix to the Transactions of 1879 ( a 

 list of the fishes of Nova Scotia, corrected to date, in the pre- 

 paration of which he manifests great research, and acknowledges 

 the generous assistance of his much esteemed friend, Prof. G. 

 Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institute, Asst. United States 

 Fish Commissioner. This paper will be much valued for the 

 information given, and for future reference. 



Dr. Sommers, Prof, of Microscopy, and the Rev. E. Ball, of 

 Maccan, furnish botanical papers of merit and usefulness — the 

 former on Nova Scotian Mosses, the last named gentleman on 

 Aspidium Spinulosum — Grey. Dr. Sommers has also furnished 

 a paper on Microscopy. 



Mr. H. Louis, Assoc. Roy, School of Mines ( a recent member 

 of our Institute), communicates a paper on "The Analysis of a 

 New Mineral from Blomidon." For this contribution to science, 

 with re'erence to which Prof. Dana, to whom it was submitted, 

 remarks that there is nothing like it in Mineralogy ( meaning 



