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Notes. 



In a review of a paper by Prof. T. R. Jones and Dr. Henry 

 Woodward on Beliniirus grandceviis, -a new species of Palaeozoic 

 Limjloid CrListacean from the " Eo-Ca-'boniferous" of Riversdale, 

 N.S., it is stated on pag-e 208 of this journal that Beli'nurus has 

 not been found in rocks of earlier age than the Coal Measures. 

 In Geikie's Text Book of Geology, however, this genus is men- 

 tioned as occurring with Pterygotiis, Bolhriolepis^ Coccosieus, 

 Pierichihys, Glyptolepis and other typical Lower Devonian and 

 Silurian forms in the Kiltorcan beds of Ireland. Thus the 

 inference drawn in the conclusion ot this article that these 

 rocks are Carboniferous does not seem to be sustained. May 

 it not on the other hand be assumed that "The faunae of the 

 seas of the Lower Carboniferous, Coal formation and Permian 

 periods, both in Europe and America, present so great similarities 

 that they may, in a broad view of the subject, be regarded as iden- 

 tical; "* while for " Lower Carboniferous," according to correla- 

 tions of the fossils from these strata in New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia made recently by Professor Kidston and Dr. David White, 

 as recorded by Mr. J. F. Whiteaves in his " Address on the Devo- 

 nian System in Canada," must we now say " Lower Devonian" ? 



R. W. E. 



Mr. Sinclair, M.A., Vice-Principal of the Normal School, has 

 been granted leave of absence tor one year. He expects to spend 

 most of the year at Chicago University where he has recently been 

 awarded an honorary post graduate fellowship in the Department 

 of Pedagogy. The fellowships ot which there are only two granted 

 by the University are given in recognition of original Educational 

 research. He also expects to spend several months observing 

 European schools. During his six years stay in Ottawa he has 

 been librarian of the O. F. N. C. 



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