The Canadian naturalist and quarterly journal of science (1881) (14779668074)

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Title: The Canadian naturalist and quarterly journal of science
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Natural History Society of Montreal
Subjects: Natural history -- Periodicals
Publisher: Montreal, Dawson
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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MAP illustrating tlie Distribution of some of tlie more Important Trees in British Columbia, by George IVI. Dawson, THE CANADIAN NATURALIST AND ^uavt^djj f auvnal of ^deuw. NOTE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME OF THEMORE IMPORTANT TREES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. (^Printed in advance of the Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada for 1879-80.) By George M. Dawsox, D.S., A.R.S.M., F.G.S. British Columbia forming a portion of the Cordillera regionof the west coast of America, with diversified and bold physicalfeatures, the lines indicating the geographical range of the variousspecies of plants do not assume in it the broad rounded formsfound in less mountainous districts. The peculiarities in distri-bution while adding interest to the study, render an intimateknowledge of the topography of the country an essential pre-requisite to its prosecution. As large tracts of the province areas yet geographically unknown owing to their remoteness andsingular impenetrability, we are far from p