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THE CANADIAN 



RECORD OF SCIENCE 



INCLUDING THE PROCEEDINGS OF 



THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MONTREAL, 



AND REPLACING 



THE CAKADIAlSr :^ATUEALIST. 



CONTKNTS. 



PAGE 



Description of a supposed new genus of Polyzoa from the Trenton Lime- 

 stone at Ottawa. By Lawrenck M. Lambe, F.G.S 1 



Notes upon the Flora of Newfoundland. By B. L. Robinson and H. von 

 SCHRENK 3 



Peculiar Behaviour of Charcoal in the Blast Furnace at Radnor Forges, Que. 

 By J. T. Donald, M. A 32 



Charcoal Impregnated with Slag. By D. P. Penhallow, M. A.Sc 34 



Contributions to Canadian Botany. By James M. Macodn 39 



Currents and Temperatures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By Andrew T. 

 Drummond, LL.D , 50 



On Certain Birds frmo the Moluccas, now in the Society's Museum. By J. 

 B. Williams, F.Z.S 57 



Anhydrite in Ontario. By Prof. W. Nicol 61 



Review of the Evidence for the Animal Nature of Eozoon Canadense. By 

 Sib J. William Dawson, C.M.G 62 



On a New Alkali Hornblende and a Titaniferous Andradite from the 

 Nepheline-Syenite of Dungannon, Hastings County, Ontario. By Frank 

 D. Adams and B. J. Harrington, McGill College, Montreal 77 



A Lecture upon Acetj^lene. By Prof. J. M. Crafts 88 



Two Shrews of the Genus Sorex, new to New Brunswick. By Philip Cox, 

 A.B.,B.Sc.,Ph.D 117 



Proceedings of the Natural History Society 118 



Book Notices : 



The History of Mount Mica, of Maine, U.S.A., and its Wonderful 



Deposits of Matchless Tourmalines. By Augustus Choate Hamlin. 126 

 Geological Biology, an Introduction to the Geological History of Organ- 

 isms. By Henry S. Williams , — 127 



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1896. 



