1908] Geology of Gaspe Pexinsula, 67 



In this magnificent Memoir, with its princelv plates and 

 exqmsite illustrations, the State of New York has once more 

 shewn the world how far science and art has reached towards a 

 realization of satisfactory results in describing and illustrating 

 the hard facts of Geology in an orderly and d'elightfu! manner 



To the student of palaeontology and stratigraphical geology 

 this handsome contribution to the history of early Deyonian 

 times will be most w^elcome. It fills a long-felt want', and ser\-es 

 to tie together a number of faunas and formations with others in 

 the State of New York, as well as beyond. Science, and geology 

 especially, knows no political boundaries. As Dr. Clarke yery 

 aptly puts it, "The New York series of formations spreads away 

 from Its typical region to all points of the compass, and in all these 

 directions, howeyer far it extends, light is to be sought for the 

 explanation of past geologic conditions in New York." " Neyer- 

 theless, the State .... does not and ne^•er can in itself afford the 

 solution of Its own prol-lems." Prof. James Hall, for the sixty- 

 three years that he was in office at Albany had shewn that the 

 New York series extended beyond the limits of New York State 

 The standard laid down by the fathers of geology in North-Eastern 

 America, Hall, Logan, Dana, Billings, Emmons and many others 

 were to be kept high and to the fore. 



The subject matter dealt by the distinguished successor 

 to James Hall m the Memoir before me was obtain-d by Dr 

 Clarke in the Peninsula of Gasne. in South-Eastern Oiieb-c 

 After describing the general distribution of the "Early Deyonic 

 of New ^ ork" and oointing out their extension north and east 

 then sets to the taslc of giying the geology of the rec^ion coyered 

 by the Memoir. The geology o^ the Forillon. of Pe'rce ^a brief 

 sketch of Y/hich had appeared in 1903 in adyance sheets from 

 the report of the Palaeontologist. 1904, and in Bulletin 107 

 Geological Papers, Albany, 1907), the Gaspe .sandstones etc are 

 followed by descriptions of the yarious faunas. Three distinct 

 faunas are noticed, and their rich haryest of forms new to science 

 or recorded afresh, constitute the bulk of the material on which 

 the Memoir is based. They are as follows- 



I. Fauna of the St. Allan beds. Forty-eight species. 

 II. Fauna of the Cape Bon Ami beds Of this fauna 

 eleyen species are recorded. 



Ill Fauna of the Grande Greve limestones. One hundred 

 and sixty species. 



Observations on the Dalmanites of lhe early Devonian are 

 introduced m the text which throw light upon race character- 



