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hardness and other properties; a collection of crystals presented 

 bj the Paris school of mines. 



Lithalogy. A collection of rocks from the Paris museum of 

 natural history prepared by Stanislaus Meunler ; collections of 

 Canadian rocks. 



Economic geology. Copper ores from eastern Canada; iron ores 

 from Leeds, St Urbain and Saguenay; auriferousi quartz from 

 Beauce; crude and manufactured crysolite from Thetford and 

 Coleraine and a, series of Canadian phosphates. ' 



Zoology. General collection including many Canadian mam- 

 mals. 



Botany. Herbarium of 10,000 specimens including collections 

 from Canada and the United States; collections from the North- 

 west presented by the Canadian geological survey. There are 

 also collections of woods from Canada, France and from the 

 English markets. Models of edible and poisonous mushrooms 

 and specimens illustrating abnormal development, natural 

 grafts and vegetable diseases. 



McGill university (Peter Redpath museum), Montreal. B. J. 

 Harrington, honorary curator. 



Paleontology. Collections of Sir J. W. Dawson, largely Car- 

 boniferous and Devonian fossil plants; Microisauria and post- 

 Pliocene mollusks of Canada; many types of species of Eozoon. 



Mineralogy and geology. Many fine Canadian and foreign 

 minerals and rocks; the Holmes and Miller collections of 

 minerals. 



Zoology. The Carpenter collection of shells, and other col- 

 lections illustrating various departments of zoology. 



Botany. The university herbarium, including the Holmes herb- 

 arium and other special collections. 



Montreal college, Philosophy house, Montreal. 

 Mmeralogy. A collection of minerals made by the Abb^ 

 Haily, similar to that at Laval. 



Natural history society of Montreal, Montreal. 



Paleontology. General collection of fossils. 



Mineralogy. The C. U. Shepard collection of minerals of 4000 

 specimens, presented by Dr Holmes; many good specimens of old 

 finds. 



