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fim| r f^ hlCal ^ WG m ' ght find the re mains of two entirely dis- 
iTl th ’ ^ eSerV ; ed hl tW ° Strata of a continuous formation 
Offifalhr enr u P on the other conformably, yet geo- 
logically entirely contemporaneous.” y ° 
rant°fn 4 ’ by Pu C ’ White, gives a description of certain aber- 
lant forms of the Chamidae, from the Cretaceous rocks of Texas • 
of a collection of Mesozoic fossils from Alaska and* an 
account of the Nautiloid genus Enclimatoceras. ’ d "" 
5 ls a dictionary of altitudes in the United States verv 
Dominion. re ^ erenCe 1 N °' 6 iS a lable of eIevati ™= in the 
Our Comer. A Monthly Magazine of Fiction, Poetry, Politics 
f-" Ce ; „ A a’ Vol. VI., No. 3. September 1, 
1885. London : Freethought Publishing Company. 
Mr. J. Horner continues his ably-written instructions for ama- 
SSf In thiS Chapter he treatS 0f -o^on. a m nd 
The « Luminiferous Ether,” by Laurence Small, is a good 
exposition of the views held by modern scientific leaders, g and 
will be regarded as an abomination by the “ Substantialists,” the 
men who have arisen to set everyone and everything to rights 
. v IOm ^ ■ contemporary is quoted the strange proposal to improve 
the weather of Western Europe by means of a floating break- 
water, moored, we suppose in Davis’s Straits. Some years a-o 
it was proposed in this “ Journal” to block up these Straits by 
blasting the rocks on both shores, and causing them to fall into 
the sea. 
