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Canadian Orthoptera. (Concluded.) F. B. CAULFIELD. 393

On the Correlation of the Geological Structure of the

Maritime Provinces of Canada with those of West-

ern Europe. Sir WM. DAWSON....

The Retention and the Loss of the Hair from a

Physiological Standpoint. Professor T. WESLEY

MILLS

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407

The Distribution and Physical and Past-Geological

Relations of British North American Plants. A.

T. DRUMMOND

412

The Distribution and Physical and Past-Geological

Relations of British North American Plants. (Con-

tinued.) A. T. DRUMMOND.......

457

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Invaporation Professor W. L. GOODWIN....................................

"The Plague of Mice" in Nova Scotia and Prince

Edward Island. Rev. GEORGE PATTERSON, D.D.... 472

The Rearing of Bears and the Worship of Yoshitsune

by the Ainos of Japan. Professor D. P. PEN-

HALLOW

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481

On the Physiology of the Heart of the Snake. Pro-

fessor T. WESLEY MILLS.......

489

The Fresh-Water Sponges of Newfoundland. (With

Cut.) A. H. MACKAY.....

497

Notes on Fossil Woods from the Western Territories

of Canada. (Abstract.) Sir WM. DAWSON...

Squirrels: Their Habits and Intelligence, with special

reference to Feigning. (Abstract.) Professor T.

WESLEY MILLS....

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The Meeting of the American Association for the

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Reviews and Book Notices...

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Structural Features of Discina Acadica of the St. John Group. (With cut.) G. F.

MATTHEW

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Origin of the Ainos and their Final Settlement and Distribution in Japan. D. P.

PENHALLOW

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New Fresh-Water Sponges from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. (With cut.)

A. H. MACKAY.....

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Sun Dance of the Cree Indians. C. LANE.....

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Abstract of the Presidents' Addresses. R. W. BOODLE.....

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Boulder Drift and Sea Margins at Little Metis, Lower St. Lawrence. SIR W. DAWSON

Origin of the American Varieties of the Dog. A. S. PACKARD....

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Pleistocene Fossils from Anticosti. LIEUT.-COL. GRANT AND SIR W. DAWSON..

Some Prehistoric and Ancient Linear Measures. R. P. GREG..

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Electrical Furnace for Reducing Refractory Ores. T. S. HUNT..

The Late Dr. William Carpenter

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M. H. BRISSETTE.

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Page 152. Reverse the numbering of Figs. 2 and 3, and in Reference, No. 1, for "" read "."

Page 174, line 7. For "cinerera" read "cinerea."

Pages 198, 9. In Tables for " Phospheric" read "Phosphoric."
Page 220, line 11 from bottom. For "7 560" read "7) 560."
Page 256, line 5 from bottom.
dorff."

For "Drugendorff" read "Dragen

Transactions of the Society will be rouna a Cavie VI ше Cretaceous formations of the western Northwest Territories of Canada, prepared by Dr. G. M. Dawson, and giving the geological position of the plants at that time described. The new facts detailed in the paper mentioned require us to intercalate in this table three distinct plant-horizons not previously recognized in the western territories of Canada. One of these, the Kootanie series, should probably be