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The cab rocks of British Columbia, according to Mr. 
G. M. Dawso 1, Lower Cretaceous (or Creta taceo-Jurassic) on 
(Queen Saathens Tetasidi, etc., holding anthracite; 2, Cretaceous 
on Vancouver Island, with bituminous coal ; and 3, Tertiar y; 
affording bituminous coal and lignite. The pei yielded, on 
analysis by Dr. Harrington, Fixed Carbon 85° 76, 83°09, volatile 
combustible matter 4°77, 5°U2, sulphur 0°89, 1°53, ash 6°69 S70 
100. The Vancouver Island — Saye. on an average, Fixed 
Carbon 64°05, 59°55, vol. 28°19 ash 6° 29, water 1°47. Trials 
under the direction of the United ae War ‘Department showed 
ight required to produce the same heat 
Se cncaceaa territory and Rocky Mountain coal was as 18:22: 
rtiary coals include those of Bellingham Bay, and 
Seattle on ey Sound. North of the 49th parallel they under- 
lie nearly 1,000 square miles of the low country ce oa pve 
of the Fraser and the lower part of its valley. These coal form 
tions cover great tracts in the interior of British Colenitiers aie 
the basaltic ye eth of the Be form the latest rocks of the 
ee Tertiary. By a rough estimate the number of 
squa iles the formation covers between the 49th and 54th 
sarallele is not less than 12,000. The Quesnel lignitic beds are 
interesting on account of the plant and insect remains found in 
them. Some of the insects are described by Mr. Scudder. Mr. 
more than three miles. It rests against a bed of crystalline lime- 
stone and partly pare Toy Relea 
9. Fossil Fishes from ® Trias of New es: and Connecti- 
cut.—Dr. J. S, NewBErry tea escribed (Annals N. Y. Aca 
caudatus Newb, Piycholepis lat Newb., the former from 
d er fro 
lepis is in Europe a Liassic pct its occurrence here, as Dr, 
But h 
does not seriously invalidate the evidence that they are Triassic, 
though possibly Jurassic in the upper beds. The species is more 
heterocercal than the European 
10. Stromatopora.—At the _imecting of the pa oo 
of June 5, 1878, a paper by Dr. Dawson of Montre , 
of 
to those of SMillepoa ‘that they showed no nummuline layer, Tike 
Am. Jour. Sco1.—Turrp eyes: Vou. XVI, No. 92.—Avuausr, 1878. 
