236 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
IV. MiscELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Canadian Scientific Research in 1874.—Mr. James Richard- 
son (of the Geological Survey) spent the months of May, June 
and July in a topographical and geological examination of the im- 
lets on the coast of British Columbia, between the 52d and 55th 
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of poplars in the valleys, has been chosen by the half-breeds as 4 
base for their hunting and trading a eR South of W 
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which, though perhaps not so rugged as those of Southern Dakota, 
are characterized by barre i 
them, and almost always produce a more or less well marked 
dark Cretaceous clays. The Cretaceous rocks in some places 
-yielded numerous well-preserved fossils enclosed in ferruginous oF 
calcareous nodules, the play of color due to the original pearly 
matter of the shell being in many cases still apparent. The hort 
zon indicated by most of these is that of the Fort Pierre Group x 
Cretaceous No. 4 of Meek and Hayden. ; 
field work of the Boundary Commission is now Over, - 
line having been run and properly marked from the Lake of th 
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