BULLETIN 



OP THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NEV/ BRUNSWICK. 



THE CLIMATE OF ACADIA IN THE EARLIEST 



TIMES. 



(Annual Address by G. F. Matthew, M.A., F.R.S.C.) 



Warm-Water Faunas and Cold-Water Faunas op the Moderit 

 World Contrasted. 



Climate may be shortly de(fined as the coDdition of a place 

 in relation to the various phenomena of the atmosphere, as 

 temperature, moisture, winds, etc. These vary with the 

 geographical position, the altitude and other conditions. We 

 are familiar with these climatic peculiarities upon the land, 

 but in a similar way the surrounding conditions impress 

 themselves upon submarine tracts in the ocean, affecting the 

 distribution of life beneath its waters. Thus there are sub- 

 marine climates as well as terrestrial ones, and these some- 

 times very diverse from each other, in closely contiguous 

 regions. 



Climatic differences have existed on the globe in times 

 past, as they do at the present day, and my endeavor this 

 evening will be to bring before you some proofs of the varia- 

 tions of subaqueous climate in this part of America, in the- 



