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at an exposure six miles north of Clarke's Harbour, at each of 
which localities a small series of fossils was obtained. 
The object of the paper was to give as complete a list as possible 
of the fossils of this formation in Manitoba. In the museum of 
the survey there are now as many as sixty species from Stony 
mountain alone. 
Prof. Chapman contributed a paper On Paleozoic Corals. 
An attempt to simplify the determination of genera in the so- 
called Tabulated and Rugose corals of Paleozoic rocks. 
Sir William Dawson then summarized in a very interesting 
manner his paper On the Correlation of Early Cretaceous Floras 
in Canada and the United States, and on some neio plants of this 
period. 
The purpose of this paper was to illustrate the present state of 
our knowledge respecting the flora of Canada in the early Cre- 
taceous, and to notice some new plants from Anthracite, N. W. 
T., collected by Dr. Ami, and from Canmore, collected by Dr. 
Hayden. It was a continuation of the author's paper on the Meso- 
zoic Floras of the Rocky Mountain region of Canada in the 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1885. 
Sir William Dawson then introduced a paper by Dr. Ami, of 
the Canadian Geological Survey, ' 'On the Occurrence of Grapto- 
lites and other Fossils of Quebec age in the Black Slates of Little 
Metis, Quebec." This paper contains notes aiid descriptions of 
Grai)tolites and other fossils from an interesting collection made 
V)y Sir William Dawson from rooks which have generally been 
assigned to the age of the Quebec group. 
Prof. L. W. Bailey, of Frederickton, New Brunswick, in a 
paper entitled Observations on the Geology of Southwestern Nova 
Scotia, gives a review of the geological structure of Shelburne 
and Yarmouth counties, Nova Scotia, in the light of recent ex- 
plorations made by the author, with a sketch map of the form- 
ations. 
Section IV elected the following officers for the ensuing year: 
President— iJ ■ F. Whiteaves, F. G. S. 
Vice-president — Prop. J. Macoun. 
Secretary — Pkof. D. P. Penhallow. 
The whole society elected the following officers : 
President— i . G. Bourinot, LL. D,, etc. 
Vice-president —G-Eono-E M. Dawson, C. M. G., etc. 
Secretary— 3 . Fletcher, F. L. S. 
Treasurer— h.. R. C. Selwyn, C. M. G., etc. 
■ Before adjourning the society extended a unanimous invitation 
to the Geological Society of America to hold their next winter 
meeting in Ottawa, Canada. 
Dr. George M. Dawson, of the Geological Siarvey of Canada, 
has just had the honor of C. M. G. conferred on him by her Bri- 
tannic Majesty. 
