Price $3.00 the Volume of eight numbers. The Devonian of the Acadian Provinces. By R. W. ELLS, LL.D., F.R.S.C.. 335 Letter on D. White's article in last issue. By G. F. MATTHEW, LL.D., Life History of the Camberwell Beauty Butterfly. By A. E. NORRIS....... 345 The Flora of Montreal Island. By ROBERT CAMPBELL, M.A., D.D.......... 349 List of the Published Writings of Elkanah Billings, F.R.S., Palæontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada, 1856-1876. By B. E.WALKER, F.G.S 366 LONDON, ENGLAND: COLLINS, 157 Great Portland St. BOSTON, MASS.: A. A. WATERMAN & Co., 36 Bromfield St. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MONTREAL. [Incorporated 1832.] OFFICERS-SESSION 1901-1902. Patron: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA. LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL. President: PROF. EW. MACBRIDE, M. A., D.Sc. FRANK D. ADAMS, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. J. H. JOSEPH. DR. T. WESLEY MILLS. HON. J. K. Ward. C. T. WILLIAMS. HON. JUSTICE WÜRTELE. Hon. Recording Secretary: CHAS. S. J. PHILLIPS. Honorary Treasurer: J. G. McKERGOW. Hon. Corresponding Secretary : J. S. BUCHAN, K. C., B.C.L. Honorary Curator: A. E. NORRIS. Members of Council: F. W. RICHARDS, Chairman. J. A. U. BEAUDRY, C.E. JOHN HARPER. EDGAR JUDge. H. MARKLAND MOLSON. Editing and Exchange Committee: FRANK D. ADAMS, Ph.D., F. R.S.C. A. T. DRUMMOND, LL.D., Kingston, Ont. PROF. E. W. MACBRIDE, M. A., D.Sc. T. WESLEY MILLS, M.A., M.D. J. F. WHITEAVES, Ottawa, Ont. J. A. U. BEAUDRY, C.E. ALFRED GRIFFIN. H. MCLAREN, Chairman. A. E. NORRIS. G. M. TOD. C. T. WILLIAMS. Museum Committee: A. E. NORRIS, Chairman. REV. ROBT. CAMPBELL, M.A., D.D. A. B. DUмOUCHEL. G. A. DUNLOP. O. E. LEROY, B. A. PROF. J. B. A. LEYMARIE. PROF. E. W. MACBRIDE, M. A., D.Sc. H. E. VENNOR. Field Work Committee: C. T. WILLIAMS, Chairman. FRANK D. ADAMS, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. REV. G. COLBORNE HEINE, B.A. PROF. E. W. MACBRIDE, M.A., D.Sc. ALEX. ROBERTSON. The publication in a recent number of this journal of a paper by Mr. David White on "Certain Paleobotanic Aspects of the Upper Paleozoic in Nova Scotia " appears to call for some comment in regard to certain statements therein made. The paper seems, as a whole, to be written in an apologetic spirit rather than from the argumentative standpoint, and does not add greatly to our knowledge regarding a somewhat complicated problem presented in certain rock formations which occur both in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Several other papers bearing upon this question have recently appeared in the transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science and elsewhere, and it is to be deplored that a controversy should have arisen on what, in the natural order of geological investigation, should be a comparatively simple question. 1 Can. Rec. Sci., Vol. VIII., No. 5, Jan., 1901. 2 Trans. N. S. Inst. Sci., Vol. X., pp. 162 and 235, Amer. Assoc., Aug., 1899. Ottawa Nat., Vol. XIII., pp. 207, 256, Vol. XIV., pp. 1 and 99. |