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Native fauna of the country. No one is more solicitous for the 
protection of our wild animals than the true sportsman. Without 
them, indeed, his occupation would be gone. It is through the 
pressure brought to bear by gentlemen represented by these 
journals, that such protective legislation as we have, has been ob- 
tained, In their- pages we constantly find protests against the 
murderous practices of a class of hunters who care for nothing 
but the gratification of the instinct of destruction, and who would, 
if not suppressed, reduce the world to a condition as lifeless as 
that of our unfortunate neighbor the moon. 
A valuable feature of these journals is the scientific element 
which enters into them. They all have a department devoted to 
exact information, which is generally edited by some competent 
Scientist. In this, as in other respects, the NATURALIST recognizes 
in these journals natural allies in the work of interesting and in- 
Structing in the facts of nature. By these facts we live, enjoy, 
suffer and die; and the knowledge of them is a most agreeable 
combination of the wile with the duice. 
Report OF THE GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY OF CANADA FOR 1878-79." 
This volume possesses special interest from the large amount. of 
novel information it gives regarding the geology and physical 
geography of British Columbia and of the region lying west of 
Hudson’s bay. While the survey work has gone on in Canada, 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, having been performed in the 
latter province by Messrs. Bailey, Matthew and Ells, British 
Columbia has naturally, from the recent discovery of coal an 
gold mines, received of late particular attention. Mr. G. M. 
Dawson has had charge of this region. His report relates to the 
zueen Charlotte islands. He believes that two periods of glacia- 
tion have occurred on these islands, the second less intense, con- 
sisting of a temporary advance of glaciers from the various 
mountain systems, Mr. Robert Bell’s report of his explorations 
of the Churchill and Nelson rivers, and around God’s and Island 
Lakes is a continuation from the previous volume of his account 
of this vast and little known region. The remarks on the north- 
€rn limits of forest trees in British America and on forest preserva- 
ton will be of much permanent value, as well as the zoological 
and botanical appendices in the volume, To anthropologists the 
chapter by Mr. Dawson on the habits and architecture of the 
cong Indians will prove well worth examining and of permanent 
lue. 
Recenr Lirgorocicat Nortices.—In a brief paper on the age 
of the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior, which is extracted 
fromthe Proceedings of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, Boston Meeting, 1880, Mr. M. E. Wads- 
* Geological Survey of Canada. ALFRED R.C. Setwyn, F. R. S., F. G. S, 
Director, R “A ese for 1878-79. Montreal, Dawson Biothers, 1880. 8vo, 
With Maps bis pine a serine ene 3 
