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Geological and Natural- History Survey of Canada. Annual Report. 

 Neiv Series. Vol. II. (for 1886), 1887. 8vo ; pages 1120. With 

 13 plates of views and sections and 8 maps and long sections. 

 Dawson Brothers : Montreal. 



This very thick volume consists of numerous Reports and Maps 

 of investigations and surveys made and carried ou under the 

 superintendence of Dr. Alfred E. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., F.R.S., &c, 

 Director of the Canadian Survey. There are thirteen Reports, 

 lettered and paged separately, relating to various portions of the 

 Dominion of Canada, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, and 

 northward to the Arctic Ocean. 



Report "A" (87 pages) is a summary of the operations of the 

 Survey for the year 1886, including work done at the Colonial 

 Exhibition in London ; additions to the Library are also enume- 

 rated. Report ; ' B" (129 pages, with a map) is on a geological 

 examination of the northern part of Vancouver Island and the 

 adjacent coasts, by Dr. G. M. Dawson. Mr. J. F. Whiteaves 

 describes the fossils ; and Prof. J. Macoun catalogues the plants 

 found there. The Meteorology is also noticed. Report " D " (41 

 pages, with a long section), by Mr. R. G. McConnell, treats of a 

 portion of the Rocky Mountains, chiefly along the line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway. Mr. J. B. Tyrrell gives Report " E " 

 (176 pages, with two maps) on a part of Northern Alberta in the 

 North-western Territory, and the western portions of Assiniboia and 

 Saskatchewan. Mr. J. F. "Whiteaves describes the fossils in one 

 appendix ; and Mr. D. B. Dowling enumerates the Lepidoptera in 

 another ; Elevations and Indian names of places are also tabulated. 



Report " F " is preliminary (24 pages), by Mr. A. P. Low, on 

 the country between Lake "Winnipeg and Hudson Bay. Botanical 

 and Meteorological observations are noted. Dr. R. Bell reports 

 '* G " (39 pages) on portions of the At-ta-wa-pish-kat and Albany 

 Rivers (Lonely Lake to James's Bay). Report " J," by Dr. R. 

 W. Ellis (70 pages, with a map), relates to a portion of the Eastern 

 Townships of Quebec, especially to the Counties of Compton, 

 Stanstead, Beauce, Richmond, and "Wolfe. Report "M" (39 

 pages, with two maps) is on the Surface Geology of Northern New 

 Brunswick and South-eastern Quebec, by Mr. R. Chalmers. Re- 

 port " N " (19 pages, with a map), by Dr. L. W. Bailey and Mr. 

 W. Mclnnes, treats of portions of the Counties of Victoria, 

 Northumberland, and Restigouche in New Brunswick. Messrs. 

 H. Fletcher and E. R. Faribault in Report « P" (163 pages) deal 

 with the Geology of the Counties of Guysborough, Antigonish, 

 Pictou, Colchester, and Halifax in Nova Scotia. Report " R " (62 

 pages, with map) consists of Dr. G. M. Dawson's systematized 

 notes accompanying a geological map of the Northern Portion of 

 the Dominion of Canada, East of the Rocky Mountains. These 

 notes are supplementary 1o the sketch and map of the physical 



