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tlie things which are not seen. Prejudice and falsehood, ignorance 

 and vice, were felt by him to be the common foes of both ; and 

 pardon me, if I add, that no man I have ever known carried more 

 genially and unobtrusively, yet more thoroughly, his earnest 

 Christian faith into all the daily business and the duties of life. 



When a man of such genuine kindliness and worth is suddenly 

 called away in his prime, with still so much of his life-work 

 seemingly waiting its accomplishment, it is as when a brave vessel 

 founders in mid-ocean. The wild eddy of the troubled waters 

 gathers around the fatal gulf, and a cry of sympathetic sorrow 

 rises up as the news is borne along to distant shores. But the 

 ocean settles back to its wonted flow where that gallant bark went 

 down, and the busy world soon returns to its old absorbing occu- 

 pations. But there are those to whom that foundered bark has 

 been the shipwreck of a life's hopes ; and to me the loss of my 

 life-long friend and brother will make life's future years wear a 

 shadow they could never wear before." 



ARTICLE XV. — Notice of Tertiary Fossils from Labrador ^ 

 Maine, <£'c., and Remarks on the Climate of Canada in 

 the Newer Pliocene or Pleistocene Period. By J. W. 

 Dawson, LL.D., F.G.S. 



{Read before the Natural History Society.) 



I am indebted to Capt. Orlebar, R.N., for a small collection of 

 fossils from the vicinity of Tertiary Bay on the coast of Labrador 

 a locality in which similar collections were made several years 

 since by Adm^ Bayfield. They occur in clay a little above high 

 water mark ; but the species present indicate a considerable 

 depth at the time of the deposition of the bed in which they are 

 contained, so that it cannot properly be regarded as merely a 

 raised beach. The species contained in the collection are as 

 follows; those found in the newer Pliocene of Canada bein^ 

 marked with asterisks. 



Balanus porcatus.^ 



Spirorhis vitrea, attached to shells.* 



Sp. carinata. 



Buccinum undatum.^ 



