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Canada—New Brunswick.
A Monograph of the Cartography of the Province of New Brunswick.
Ganong.
By W. F.
Ganong, m.a., ph.d^ (From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada.
Second Series—1897-98. Vol. ii. sect, ii.) Ottawa: J. Durie & Son, 1897. Size
10 X 7, pp. 313-428. Maps. Presented by the Author.
After a general discussion of the character of old maps and the method of studying
them, the maps of New Brunswick are considered as belonging to eight different
types arranged chronologically; from the “Pre-differentiation type ” of 1500 to 1534, to
the “ Exact type,” which, for New Brunswick, does not yet exist. There are lists of
maps and a bibliography as appendices.
Canada—North-West Territory. National G. Mag. 9 (1898): 105-112. Scidmore.
The North-West Passes to the Yukon. By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. With
Illustrations.
Historical notes on the various crossings of the passes of the Coast range into the
Yukon district and Alaska.
Gilpin.
Canada—Nova Scotia. P. <fc T.E.S. Canada 2 (1896) (sect, iv,): 167-179.
Coal-Mining in Pictou County. By E. Gilpin, junr, ll.d. With Map.
A history of coal-mining in Nova Scotia.
Canada—St. Lawrence. Dawson.
Character and Progress of the Tides in Gulf and River St. Lawrence as ascer
tained by simultaneous observations with self-registering Tide-Gauges. By W.
Bell Dawson. (From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Second
Series—1897-98. Yol. iii. sect. iii. Mathematical, Physical, and Chemical Sciences.)
Ottawa : J. Durie & Son, 1897. Size 10 x 7, pp. 51-68. Chart and Diagrams.
Canada—Tides and Currents. Dawson.
Survey of Tides and Currents in Canadian Waters. Report of Progress by W.
Bell Dawson. Ottawa, 1898. Size 10 x 7, pp. 16. Map and Diagrams.
Canada—Yukon District. National G. Mag. 9 (1898): 113-116. Garland.
Overland Routes to the Klondike. By Hamlin Garland. With Illustration.
The routes considered are from Edmonton, and the old telegraph trail up the
Fraser river from Ashcroft, or Kamloops, concerning all of which information is scanty.
Canada—Yukon Goldfields. National G. Mag. 9 (1898): 117-120. Dali.
The Future of the Yukon Goldfields. By Prof. William H. Dali.
The future considered is the very immediate one of next winter, the paper dealing
with the disparity between the number of miners reaching Klondike and the possible
transportation for their necessary supplies.
Historical—Cabot. P. cfc T.E.S. Canada 2 (1896) (sect, ii.): 3-30. Dawson.
The Voyages of the Cabots in 1497 and 1498. A sequel to a paper in the
Transactions of 1894. By Samuel Edward Dawson. With Maps and Illustration.
Mexico—Lower California. Merrill.
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Notes on the Geology
and Natural History of the Peninsula of Lower California. By George P. Merrill.
From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895, pp. 969-994. With Ten
Plates. Washington, 1897. Size 10 x 6£.
Mexico—Orizaba. Appalachia 8 (1898): 350-355. Cogshall.
A Trip to the Summit of Orizaba. By W. A. Cogshall. With Illustration.
Mexico -Orizaba and Popocatepetl. Appalachia 8 (1898) : 356-361. Douglass.
The Altitudes of Orizaba and Popocatepetl. By A. E. Douglass.
United States—California. American J. Sci. 5 (1898) : 355-375. Ransome.
Some Lava Flows of the Western Slope of the Sierra Nevada, California. By
F. Leslie Ransome. With Maps.
United States—Cliff Dwellings. B. American G.S. 30 (1898): 111-123.
Origin of the Cliff Dwellings. Bv Cosmos Mindeleff.
Mindeleff.