THE CANADIAN Naturalist and Geologist, AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MONTREAL. CONDUCTED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOLUME IV. Montreal: PUBLISHED BY B. DAWSON & SON, 23 GREAT ST. JAMES STREET. 1859. This Magazine will appear bi-monthly, and be conducted by the following Committee, appointed by the Natural History Society of Montreal J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.G.S., Principal of Mc Gill College. T. STERRY HUNT, A.M., F.R.S., Chemist to Geological Survey of Canada. DAVID ALLAN POE, Esq. Rev. A. F. KEMP. A. N. RENNIE, Esq. Recording Secretary W. H. HINGSTON, M.D., Corresponding Secretary Nat. Hist. Society. Entered, according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by BENJAMIN DAWSON & Sox, in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada. INDEX. Agassiz on a Museum of Natural History .... Aikin, Professor, on the illuminating power of coal gas Allium (the onion), geographical distribution of the genus. Alosa (species of noticed)... American Association Meeting at Springfield Amphion Canadensis 1 genus 116 467 365 Barnston, George, on the geographical distribution of the Cruciferæ. Bell, R., on the Natural History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence...197, 241 Coleoptera collected by ....... Billings on the Brachiopoda of Canada on a new genus of Brachiopoda.. .......... .... on the fossils of the Calciferous Sandrock. " on new species of Trilobites.... แ on the fossils of the Chazy limestone Biloculina ringens ... Bolboporites Americanus.. Botany of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Brightwell's Life of Linnæus noticed.. British Association, twenty-eighth meeting of.. 242 245 .131, 431 301 345 367 426 30 429 246 61 75 387 Bryozoa, Dawson on..... "" Billings on .... Bulimina auriculata Camerella, Billings on the genus (species in the Chazy limestone).. Carpenter P. P., on the value of human life Catalogue of Plants in the McGill College Cabinet Chemical geology, Hunt on some points in. Clupia (species of noticed)....... Coleoptera collected in Canada East by R. Bell.. Collumnaria (species in the Chazy limestone). Corythus enucleator.... Cottle, T., list of birds found in Western Canada. Crinoidea, Billings on the 300029 |