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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  gists 
  who 
  have 
  already 
  inscribed 
  themselves 
  as 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  

   congress, 
  and 
  because 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  who 
  can 
  participate 
  

   in 
  the 
  excursions 
  is 
  necessarily 
  restricted. 
  h. 
  s. 
  w. 
  

  

  2. 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Canada. 
  — 
  Three 
  new 
  Reports 
  have 
  

   appeared 
  : 
  viz. 
  — 
  

  

  No. 
  584. 
  Part 
  L. 
  Annual 
  Report, 
  vol. 
  viii. 
  — 
  Report 
  on 
  

   explorations 
  in 
  the 
  Labrador 
  Peninsula 
  along 
  the 
  East 
  Main, 
  

   Koksoak, 
  Hamilton, 
  Mamcaugan 
  and 
  portions 
  of 
  other 
  rivers 
  in 
  

   1892-93-94-95, 
  by 
  A. 
  P. 
  Low. 
  pp. 
  1-387, 
  four 
  plates 
  and 
  four 
  

   map 
  sheets 
  (585, 
  586, 
  587, 
  588). 
  

  

  No. 
  601. 
  Part 
  D. 
  Ann. 
  Rept., 
  vol. 
  viii. 
  — 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

   country 
  between 
  Athabasca 
  Lake 
  and 
  Churchill 
  River, 
  etc., 
  by 
  

   J. 
  Burr 
  Tyrrell 
  assisted 
  by 
  D. 
  B. 
  Dowling; 
  pp. 
  1-120, 
  three 
  

   plates 
  and 
  map 
  sheet 
  (597). 
  

  

  No. 
  615. 
  Paleozoic 
  Fossils, 
  vol. 
  iii., 
  Part 
  iii. 
  — 
  The 
  fossils 
  of 
  

   the 
  Galena-Trenton 
  and 
  Black 
  River 
  formations 
  of 
  Lake 
  Winni- 
  

   peg 
  and 
  its 
  vicinity, 
  by 
  J. 
  F. 
  White 
  aves. 
  pp. 
  129-242, 
  plates 
  

   xvi-xxii. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Low's 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Labrador 
  peninsula 
  is 
  a 
  particularly 
  

   complete 
  report 
  on 
  this 
  little 
  known 
  region. 
  In 
  the 
  opening 
  

   pages 
  a 
  summary 
  account 
  is 
  given 
  of 
  previous 
  discoveries 
  and 
  

   explorations. 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  climate 
  and 
  population 
  are 
  given 
  in 
  

   addition 
  to 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  physical 
  and 
  geological 
  charac- 
  

   ters 
  of 
  the 
  district 
  traversed. 
  Appended 
  to 
  the 
  report 
  are 
  Lists 
  

   of 
  the 
  Mammals, 
  — 
  of 
  the 
  Birds, 
  — 
  of 
  the 
  principal 
  Food 
  Fishes, 
  — 
  

   of 
  the 
  Insects 
  of 
  the 
  interior, 
  — 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  microscopic 
  structure 
  

   of 
  rocks, 
  — 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  plants 
  and 
  meteorological 
  observations 
  in 
  

   1893-1894 
  and 
  1895. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Whiteaves' 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Lake 
  Winnipeg 
  Ordovician 
  

   forms 
  contains 
  the 
  following 
  remarks 
  upon 
  the 
  gigantic 
  size 
  of 
  

   fossils 
  of 
  this 
  region 
  : 
  

  

  " 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  striking 
  features 
  in 
  the 
  fossils 
  of 
  the 
  Winni- 
  

   peg 
  and 
  Red 
  River 
  limestones 
  is 
  the 
  large 
  size 
  to 
  which 
  many 
  of 
  

   the 
  specimens 
  attain, 
  though 
  this 
  is 
  more 
  particularly 
  the 
  case 
  

   with 
  the 
  Cephalopoda. 
  Thus, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  ReceptaculitidaB 
  (Recep- 
  

   tacidites 
  Otoeni), 
  which 
  is 
  abundant 
  in 
  these 
  limestones, 
  is 
  known 
  

   to 
  attain 
  to 
  a 
  size 
  of 
  twelve 
  or 
  even 
  twenty 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter. 
  

   Some 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  simple 
  Cyathophylloid 
  coral 
  (Streptelasma 
  

   robustum) 
  from 
  Lower 
  Fort 
  Garry 
  are 
  nearly 
  seven 
  inches 
  in 
  

   length, 
  as 
  measured 
  along 
  the 
  convex 
  curve, 
  and 
  nearly 
  five 
  

   inches 
  in 
  height. 
  A 
  brachiopod 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  locality 
  (Rafines- 
  

   quinalata) 
  is 
  rather 
  more 
  than 
  three 
  inches 
  in 
  length 
  at 
  the 
  hinge 
  

   line, 
  and 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Strophomena 
  incurvata 
  from 
  East 
  Selkirk 
  

   is 
  fully 
  double 
  the 
  usual 
  size 
  of 
  that 
  species. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  gastero- 
  

   pods 
  (Maclurea 
  Manitobensis) 
  of 
  these 
  limestones 
  is 
  sometimes 
  

   as 
  much 
  as 
  eight 
  inches 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  in 
  diameter, 
  and 
  another, 
  (the 
  

   Hormotoma 
  Winnijiegensis 
  of 
  this 
  Report) 
  is 
  eight 
  inches 
  long. 
  

   The 
  "gigantic 
  Orthoceratites" 
  noticed 
  by 
  Sir 
  John 
  Richardson 
  

   on 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  of 
  Lake 
  Winnipeg, 
  have 
  already 
  been 
  referred 
  

   to, 
  but 
  these 
  are 
  from 
  localities 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Saskatchewan. 
  

  

  