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other New England Museums, points out the difficulties in com- 

 paring these fruits with those of to-day, indicating that " it is 

 among the tropical and sub-tropical living species that we should 

 expect to find that the most close allies to the Tertiary forms." 

 He also compares a collection of Australian fruits in the Univer- 

 sity Museum at Harvard with those from Brandon, Vermont, and 

 adds that they closely resemble them. 



From pages 174 to 212 of the same valuable Report ot the 

 State Geologist of Vermont, Prof. G. H. Perkins himself describes 

 these fruits and accompanies the descriptions with excellent illus- 

 trations on Plates Ixxv, Ixxvi, lxxvii, lxxviii, lxxix, lxxx and lxxxi. 



The following is a list of the species identified by Prof. Per- 

 kins from the collection in the Geological Survey Museum at 

 Ottawa, Canada, to which is added the number of specimens 

 representing each species : 



1. Glossocarpelites Brandonianus, Lesquereux, Fourteen specimens, 



2. ,, elongatus, Perkins. Four specimens. 



3. ,, obtusus, Perkins. Nine specimens. 



4. ,, grandis, Perkins. Two specimens. 



5. ,, parvus, Perkins. One specimen. 



6. Monocarpelites elegans, Perkins. One specimen. 



7. Bicarpelites Grayana, (Lesquereux, sp.). One specimen. 



8. Nyssa ascoidea, Perkins. One specimen. 



9. ,, Lescurii, C. H. Hitchcock. One specimen. 



10. ,, elongata, Perkins. Two specimens. 



11. Apeibopsis Heeri, Lesquereux. Six specimens. 



12. ,, Gaudinii, Lesquereux. Fourteen specimens. 



13. Aristolochia obscura, Lesquereux Eight specimens. 



14. Aristolochites majus, Perkins. Five specimens. 



25. Sapinoides Americanus, (Lesquereux) Perkins. Six specimens 



In all, these fossil fruits, as determined by Prof. Perkins, 

 have yielded sixty-eight specimens distributed in eight genera and 

 fifteen species. They were all identified by Prof. G. H. Perkins, 

 and the Geological Survey of Canada is under special obligations 

 to him for his kindness in looking over the material submitted to 

 him, which he so willingly classified. 



As the Brandon formation of clays and lignites is supposed 

 to cross the Canadian boundary, it has been deemed of interest to 

 make a note of the collection which Sir William Logan had ob- 

 tained years ago, and must serve to throw light upon the geolog- 

 ical history of our Eastern Townships. 



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