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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  CANADA. 
  

  

  Communicated 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Geo. 
  W. 
  Dawson, 
  assistant 
  director 
  geologi- 
  

   cal 
  survey 
  of 
  Canada. 
  

  

  Provincial 
  museum, 
  Halifax, 
  Novia 
  Scotia 
  

  

  Kings 
  college, 
  Windsor, 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  

  

  Dalhousie 
  college, 
  Halifax, 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  

  

  Acadia 
  college, 
  Wolfville, 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  

  

  Natural 
  history 
  society 
  of 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  St. 
  John, 
  New 
  Bruns- 
  

   wick 
  

   . 
  Includes 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  Mechanics' 
  institute. 
  These 
  are 
  

   kept 
  separate, 
  and 
  include 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Gesner 
  (rocks, 
  

   minerals 
  and 
  fossils), 
  made 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  employed 
  on 
  the 
  Geo- 
  

   logical 
  Survey 
  of 
  New 
  Brunswick. 
  Some 
  of 
  Hartt's 
  fossil 
  insect 
  

   types 
  are 
  also 
  possessed 
  by 
  the 
  society. 
  

  

  University 
  of 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  Fredericton, 
  New 
  Brunswick. 
  

  

  Laval 
  university, 
  Quebec, 
  Que. 
  

  

  The 
  nucleus 
  of 
  this 
  collection 
  was 
  the 
  old 
  Cabinet 
  de 
  Mineralogie 
  

   of 
  the 
  Quebec 
  seminary. 
  The 
  arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  collections 
  was 
  

   undertaken 
  by 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  Sterry 
  Hunt. 
  Of 
  special 
  interest 
  is 
  a 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  of 
  minerals 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  Abbei 
  Haiiy 
  for 
  the 
  Quebec 
  

   seminary. 
  The 
  Mineralogical 
  Cabinet 
  comprises 
  more 
  than 
  

   4000 
  specimens. 
  Good 
  series 
  of 
  Palaeozoic 
  fossils 
  from 
  Bohe- 
  

   mia, 
  presented 
  by 
  Joachim 
  Barrande 
  

  

  McGill 
  University, 
  Montreal, 
  Que. 
  (Peter 
  Redpath 
  museum). 
  

  

  Many 
  fine 
  Canadian 
  and 
  foreign 
  minerals 
  and 
  rocks. 
  Collec- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  Sir 
  J. 
  W. 
  Dawson, 
  largely 
  Carboniferous 
  and 
  Devonian 
  

   fossil 
  plants. 
  Microsauria 
  and 
  Post-Pliocene 
  mollusks 
  of 
  

   Canada. 
  Eozoon: 
  Many 
  types 
  of 
  species. 
  The 
  Holmes 
  and 
  

   Miller 
  collections 
  are 
  incorporated 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  collection 
  of 
  

   minerals 
  

  

  Natural 
  history 
  society 
  of 
  Montreal, 
  Montreal, 
  Que. 
  

  

  The 
  museum 
  contains 
  the 
  C. 
  U. 
  Shepard 
  Collection 
  of 
  Minerals, 
  

   presented 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Holmes, 
  and 
  consisting 
  of 
  about 
  4000 
  speci- 
  

   mens. 
  The 
  mineralogical 
  collections 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  kept 
  up 
  to 
  

  

  