116 Scientific Intelligence. 
39) he states of Mt. Murchison that “it is a most massive mountain, 
which the Indians consider to be the highest of all the Rocky Mountains. 
I afterward measured two of its highest peaks.” * ME, are. te 
spectively 15,789 and 14,431 feet above the sea.” ritten, 
however, at Fort Edmonton in Oct. 1858, and on the sae published in 
1865, the altitude is given as tabulated above, 13,400 feet, probably as 
the result of later computation 
In the later and fuller Journal See 9 . 112) speaking of it, he says, 
“if a rough ee I made shal I supposed to be the same 
peak from the Kootanie Plain, is a be trusted, it must be 13,000 to 
14,000 foot above the sea. The average ands of the mountains is 
11,000 to 12,000 feet above the sea, and I do lace much reliance 
on estimates of altitudes greater than that, as there isa striking appear- 
ance of uniformity in the vost of the mountains 
In this great mountain mass in which these peaks are, between lat. 
51° and 53°, and long. 116° and 119°, the report speaks much of glaciers. 
About Mts. Lyell and Murchison especially they are on a grand seal 
and descend into some of the valleys to an altitude of 4,320 feet above 
the sea, and fill great valleys above that altitude. All the conditions 
requisite for producing glaciers of great magnitude are stated » exis 
On some remains of Paleozoic Insects recently Seared in : Nowe 
Aestia and New Brunswick; by J. W. Dawson, LL.D.—Dr. Dawson 
has communicated to us a paper lan the above title from which we cite 
the’ iilswing facts. Mr. James Barnes of Halifax has discovered in the 
e of the coal formation, Little Glace Bay, Cape Breton, a wing of @ 
Neuropter, whose full expanse of wing when alive must have been seven 
inches. Mr. Scudder has named it Haplophebium Barnesii, and pro 
nounces it an Hphemerina. ‘This is the second species thus far discovered 
in the Nova Scotia coal formation, the only other having been found by 
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