RECORD OF SCIENCE,

INCLUDING THE PROCEEDINGS OF

THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MONTREAL,

AND REPLACING

THE CANADIAN NATURALIST.

VOL. II. (1886-1887.)

MONTREAL:

PUBLISHED BY THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY,

1887.

EDITING COMMITTEE.

D. P. PENHALLOW, B.Sc.

DR. T. W. MILLS.

A. T. DRUMMOND.

DR. B. J. HARRINGTON.

J. BEMROSE.

E. INGERSOLL.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PAGE.

Cretaceous Floras of the Northwest. Sir W. DAWSON,
F.R.S., &c., Principal of McGill University, Mon-
treal
Structural Features of Discina Acadica of the St. John
Group. (With Cut.) G. F. MATTHEW, F.R.S.C..
Origin of the Ainos and their Final Settlement and
Distribution in Japan. D. P. PENHALLOW, B.Sc.,
F.R.S.C., Professor of Botany in McGill Univer-
sity

New Fresh-Water Sponges from Nova Scotia and

Newfoundland. (With Cut.) A. H. MACKAY, B.A.,

B.Sc., Principal Pictou Academy, Pictou, N.S......

Sun Dance of the Cree Indians. C. LANE

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

Boulder Drift and Sea Margins at Little Metis, Lower

St. Lawrence. Sir W. DAWSON

Origin of the American Varieties of the Dog. Dr. A.

S. PACKARD

26

36

39

Pleistocene Fossils from Anticosti. Lieut.-Col. GRANT

and Sir W. DAWSON....

44

Some Prehistoric and Ancient Linear Measures. R.

P. GREG...

Electrical Furnace for Reducing Refractory Ores. T.

48

........

Geology and Geologists in New Brunswick. Professor

L. W. BAILEY

93

Studies in the Comparative Physiology of the Heart.

(Abstracts.) T. WESLEY MILLS, M.A., M.D., &c.,

Professor of Physiology in McGill University......

Aboriginal Trade in the Canadian Northwest. C. N.

BELL

Variation of Water in Trees and Shrubs. (With Cut.)
Professor D. P. PENHALLOW..

A Natural System in Mineralogy. Dr. T. STERRY HUNT

Physical Characteristics of the Ainos. Professor D.

P. PENHALLOW.....

Meteorological Observations for 1885. Professor C.

H. MCLEOD

Miscellaneous Notes

Proceedings of the Natural History Society.

Comparative Physiology of the Heart. (Concluded.)

Professor T. WESLEY MILLS......

Our Northwest Prairies. A. T. DRUMMOND.....

Protection of North American Birds. A. H. MASON,

F.C.S...........

153

Montreal Drinking Water. Arthur Weir.........................

171

Polyembryony. Professor D. P. PENHALLOW.

Proceedings of Natural History Society....

177

178

Annual Address of President. Sir WM. DAWSON .....

180

Affinities of the Tendrils in the Virginian Creeper.

A. T. DRUMMOND.

Abstract of a Paper on the Cambrian Faunas. G. F.

MATTHEW.

PAGE.

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253

255

Invaporation. Professor W. L. GOODWIN, D.Sc., of

Queen's University, Kingston.......

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259

264

Law of Volumes in Chemistry. Dr. T. STERRY HUNT 261

Miscellaneous Notes

Presidential Address. (Concluded.) Sir WM. DAWSON

The Canadian Rocky Mountains. G. M. DAWSON,

D.S., F.G.S., A.R.S.M..

Synthesis of Diethyl Trimethyl Amido Benzene. R.

F. RUTTAN, B.A., M.D., Lecturer in Chemistry,

Medical Faculty, McGill University

Occurrence of Scolithus in Rocks of the Chazy Forma-

tion. H. M. AMI, M.A., F.G.S........

Physiology of the Heart of the Sea-Turtle. Professor

265

285

301

304

T. WESLEY MILLS

306

The Pteraspidian Fish of the Silurian Rocks. G. F.

MATTHEW...

323

Miscellaneous Notes.....

326

Physiology of the Heart of the Sea-Turtle. (With

Plate. Concluded.) Professor T. WESLY MILLS...

Chemical Notes on Wheat and Flour. J. T. DONALD,

M.A.

329

334

On a Permian Moraine in Prince Edward Island.

(With Cut.) F. BAIN ......

341

........

Life in the Bahama Islands. Professor T. WESLEY

MILLS

344

Illustrations of the Fauna of the St. John Group. G.

F. MATTHEW

357

Note on the Occurrence of Jade in British Columbia,

and its Employment by the Natives. Dr. GEORGE

M. DAWSON .....

364

Canadian Orthoptera. F. B. CAULFIELD........

Height of Clouds. Professor C. H. MCLEOD.................

Proceedings of Natural History Society.

Miscellaneous Notes......

378

383

384

389