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fix " un-" at that page, in line 15, has been in this way put to the word 
" fortunate." I wish the word to be read as I wrote it, as I do conscien- 
tiously think it fortunate that we have not been troubled with more of 
these dendritic markings and fanciful resemblances. On the same page, 
in line 21, for " Fig. 3" read " Fig. 2," in reference to Hermann's " head 
of a goose." 
Pachyrhizodus Gltphodon. — The specimen described in Mr. Blake's 
article, at p. 133, is figured by Mr. Mackie in PL XXI. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 
The * Canadian Naturalist and Geologist ' for February contains the 
first of Dr. Dawson's admirable papers on " Air-Breathers of the Coal 
Period of Nova Scotia," which are continued through the four consecutive 
numbers, and have since been published in a separate form. This number 
also contains papers " On the Gold Mines of Canada and the manner of 
working them ;" " On the Parallelism of tlie Quebec Group with the Llan- 
deilo of England and Australia and with the Chaz}"- and Calciferous For- 
mations," by Mr. E. Billings ; by the same author, a " Description of a 
New Species of Harpes {H. Dentoni) from the Trenton Limestone, Ot- 
tawa," and " On the Internal Spiral Coils of the Genus Cyrtina," a new 
species, C. euphcniia, being described. The April number contains a " De- 
scription of a new Trilobite from the Quebec Group " {Oleniis / Loqan/'), 
by Mr. T. Devine ; " On the Antiquity of Man," — a review of Lyell's 
* Geological Evidences ' and Wilson's ' Prehistoric Man ;' "On the Remains 
of Fossil Elephants found in Canada," by Mr. E. Billings. The remains 
of the elephant now in the Canadian Geological Museum were found in 
1852, at Burlington Heights, near Hamilton, at the western extremity of 
Lake Ontario, about 40 feet beneath the surface, and GO feet above the 
level of the lake. The workmen engaged in making an excavation on the 
line of the Great Western Hallway (irst cut through 30 feet of stratified 
gravel, composed of small pebbles of limestone, and so strongly cemented 
that it could only be removed by blasting. Below this gravel there was 
met with a deposit of coarse sand, and in this the bones were discovered. 
The geological age of this deposit is not yet determined with certainty, 
but is supposed to be that of the well-known lake-ridges and terraces, 
which were apparentl}" formed just after the close of the u])pcr drift 
period, and either while the waters of the lake stood at a higher level than 
they do at present or perhaps while the basin of the lake formed an arm of 
the sea. The species is named EuelejyJias Jaclcsoni by Mr. Billings, who 
says that no remains of man or of his works have been found in the forma- 
tion which holds the bones of the elephant in Canada. In allusion to the 
absence of human bones in the ancient river-drift of Europe, he says, "I 
may mention that for the last fifteen years I have been in the habit of exami- 
ning the bottom of the Ottawa and other Canadian rivers every season, at 
the time of the lowest water, in search of fossils, and that, although I have 
seen the bones of almost all the species of land animals now living in the 
country, associated with innumerable works of man, I never yet found a 
human skull in any of these streams. I speak of the skull, because it is 
possible that some of the small bones may have been those of the human 
frame and not recognized as such by me. But as man is the Only animal 
who removes the dead of his own .species from the water and buries them 
