Miscellaneous Intelligence. 469 



(2) Mines Branch. Eugene Haanel, Director. 



Summary Report for the calendar year ending December 31, 

 1914. Pp. ix, '232 ; 12 pis., 15 figs. 



Preliminary Report on the Mineral Production of Canada dur- 

 ing the calendar year 1915 ; prepared by John McLeish. — The 

 results here stated show the extraordinary change brought about 

 in the mineral industries in North America under the stimulus of 

 war demand. The total value of mineral production in Canada 

 amounted to 1138,500,000, only $7,000,000 Jess than the maximum 

 year of 1913, and $10,000,000 more than 1914. The greatest 

 increase naturally has been in the metals, the total value of which 

 ran up, in 1915, to $77,000,000, as compared with $66,000,000 in 

 1913. The metals concerned in this change, in order of import- 

 ance, are nickel, copper and lead ; the quantity of nickel, for 

 example, being 50 per cent greater than in 1914, copper 35 per 

 cent, and lead nearly 25 per cent. Of note also, is the develop- 

 ment of the benzol and toluol, by-products from the coke-ovens. 

 There was also activity in mining magnesite and chromium ores. 



Speciai pamphlets give in detail the facts as to the production 

 for the year 1914 of gold, silver, copper, nickel, etc. ; of iron and 

 steel; coal and coke; cement, lime, clay products, stone, etc. 



Other publications of importance are the following : 



No. 291. Petroleum and Natural Gas Resources of Canada, 

 Vol. II ; by F. G. Clapp and others. Pp. viii, 404 ; 12 pis., 23 

 figs., 3 maps. 



Products and By-Products of Coal ; by Edgar Stansfield and 

 F. E. Carter. Pp. vi, 51 ; 7 tables. 



No. 325. Salt Deposits of Canada and the Salt Industry ; by 

 I,. Heber Cole. Pp. vii, 152, viii; 26 plates, 25 figs., 4 maps. 



No. 331. Investigation of Six Lignite Samples from Alberta ; 

 by B. F. Haanel and John Blizard. Pp. viii, 110. 



No. 334. Electro-Plating with Cobalt ; by Herbert T. 

 Kalmus, assisted by C. H. Harper and W. L. Savell. Pp. vii, 

 69 ; 4 figs. 



No. 344. Electrothermic Smelting of Iron Ores in Sweden ; by 

 Alfred Stansfield. 



Bulletins. — No. 12. Investigation of a reported discovery of 

 phosphate in Alberta ; Irv Hugh S. de Schmid. Pp. iv, 38 ; 12 

 pis., 1 fig., 1 map. 



No. 13. Description of the Laboratories of the Mines Branch 

 of the Department of Mines, Ottawa. Pp. vii, 46 ; 60 pis., 12 

 figs. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The National Academy of Sciences. — The annual spring 

 meeting of the National Academy was held at the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution in Washington on April 17 to 19, and was largely attended. 

 The following gentlemen were elected to membership : Gilbert 

 Ames Bliss, of the University of Chicago ; Frank Schlesinger, of 

 the University of Pittsburgh ; Gregory Paul Baxter, of Harvard 

 University ; Marston Taylor Bogert, of Columbia University ; 



