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 VOLUME VI. NUMBER 1. 



THE CANADIAN 



RECORD OF SCIENCE 



INCLUDING THE PROCEEDINGS OF 



THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP MONTREAL?!. I 



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AND REPLACING 



THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



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CONTENTS. 



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Preliminary Note on Recent Discoveries of Batrachians and other Air-breathers in 



the Coal-Formation of Nova Scotia. By Sir J. William Dawson 1 



Our Record of Canadian Earthquakes. By Sir J. William Dawson 8 



Check-list of European and North American Mosses (Bryineae.) By N. Conr. Kind- 

 berg, Ph. D 17 



Contributions to Canadian Botany. By Jas. M. Macoun 23 



The Composition of Limestones and Dolomites from a Number of Geological Hori- 

 zons in Canada. By B. J. Harrington, B. A., Ph. D 27 



On the Formation of Pegmatite Veins. By Prof. W. C. Brogger, Stockholm, Sweden. 33 



The Cambrian Terrain at Tejrovic, Bohemia. By G. F. Matthew, F.R.S.C 46 



Proceedings of the Natural History Society 48 



Notices of Books and Papers :— 



Lehrbuch der Petrographie von Dr. Ferdinand Zirkel— Zweite ganzlich neu 



verfasste Auflage— Erster Band— Wilhelm Engelman, Leipzig, 1893 55 



Notes on the Geology of Middleton Island, Alaska. By George M. Dawson, 



C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Bull. Geol. Soc. America, 1892 58 



Notes on the Occurrence of Mammoth Remains in the Yukon District of Can- 



, v ada and in Alaska. By George M. Dawson, Geol. Mag. , 1893 59 



Note on the recent discovery of large Unio-like shells in the Coal Measures at 

 psj the South Jogging, N.S. By J. F. Whiteaves. Trans. Royal Society of 



Canada. 1893 59 



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