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velop the collection much in this direction, as the available space 

 is not more than suflScient for the specimens required in Natural 

 History proper. 



Measures are now in progress which it is hoped will tend to 

 supply some of the principal deficiencies, and add useful geogra- 

 phical collections, so as to make the Museum all that it is intend- 

 ed to be, a small but thoroughly serviceable collection for the 

 purpose of instructing students, and facilitating the research of 

 local naturalists, for which purposes it will be in constant use. 

 No attempt will be made to amass a large general collection like 

 that of the Natural History Society, or to rival either that institu- 

 tion or the Geological Survey in the departments in which they 

 are eminent. After securing a suflficient general collection of types 

 for educational purposes, any farther additions will be made as far 

 as possible in objects not adequately represented in the other collec- 

 tions in the city. Its arrangement in the new building will much 

 facilitate the labours of the professors of Natural History and 

 Mineralogy, and it is hoped, add new interest to the subject 

 in the minds of students. 



It is intended that every specimen shall be labelled with its 

 name, locality, and donor, and this work has been already in great 

 part accomplished, so that it is hoped that the Museum may be 

 opened to students at the commencement of next session on the 

 6th September. 



"Ow ike Land Flora of the Devonian Period in North-Eastern 

 America:' By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., RR.S. 

 (From Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London.) 

 First noticing what was formerly known of the Devonian Plant- 

 remains in these states of New York and Pennsylvania (TTall, Va- 

 nuxem, and Rogers), in Gasp^ (Logan), in New Bruns\» lek and 

 Main (Gesner, Robb, Bennet, Hartt, Matthew, and HiLehcock), 

 the author stated that with Messrs. Hartt, Matthew, and others at 

 St. John's, he had lately examined the productive localities near 

 that city, and is now enabled to add largely to the account of the 

 Devonian plants he had already published in the 'Canadian Natu. 

 ralist,' vol. vi. 1861. He now enumerates about VO species (32 

 genera) of plants as occurring in Upper Devonian of Pennsyl- 

 vania, New Brunswick, Maine, New York, and Gaspe, in the 

 Middle Devonian of New York and Gaspe, and in the Lower De- 

 vonian of Gaspe. Of these 70 species, two {^P silophyton princeps 

 and Cordaitesangustifolia) are referred also to the Upper Silurian 



