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the north-western limits of the township of Brassard, in Berthier 
County. The cerium oxides amount to 4-78 per cent. 
The report is illustrated with a number of geological diagrams 
and plates showing the characteristic features of the country, 
and accompanied with maps showing the basin of the Moose 
River, the Lake of the Woods, and five districts of New 
Brunswick. 
Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tas- 
mania, for 1881. Hobart Town : Mercury Office. 
The Proceedings of this Society comprise, among other things, 
records of meteorological and organic phenomena as observed 
in different parts of the island. 
We see that the jargonelle pear and the More Park apricot are 
ripe January 12th to 14th, the greengage plum February 18th, 
and that the leaves of the ash and oak begin to fall in the last 
week of March. Mention is made of a proposal to introduce 
many English birds ” into the colony — a projecft of very ques- 
tionable utility. 
Ihe first snowdrop seen in flower in the Botanical Gardens 
was on July gth, and the almond tree blossomed on the 31st of 
the same month. 
Among the papers read before the Society we may mention 
Notes on the Estuary of the Derwent, by R. M. Johnston, in 
which it is shown that this locality was during the Tertiary Epoch 
occupied by a fresh-water lake. This paper includes a descrip- 
tion of the general appearance of the country at that date in 
accordance with palaeontological researches. 
Mr. C. E. Beddome contributes a description of two new 
marine shells dredged up near Three Hut Point. 
Baron Mueller makes suggestions for an extended elucidation 
of the plants of I asmania, and calls particular attention to 
Mosses, Lichens, Algae, and Fungi. 
Mr. Crouch suggests the improvement of the “ Queen’s 
Domain,” the Colonial Park. 
Another memoir by Baron Mueller describes the Flora of 
King s Island, situate about half-way between Tasmania and the 
Australian mainland, and displaying some interesting features. 
