•20 BULLKTIX OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



■especially to facilities for transportation in recent years which 

 shuts out from commercial competition all hut the purest and 

 most extensive mineral deposits. 



Palaeontology of Dr. Gesxer's Reports. 



Dr. Gesner appeal's not to have been deeply versed in the 

 science of Palteontology, which in his day was going through the 

 formative process. Its foundation principles were generally 

 known, but the means of its special application were not always 

 at hand. Authentic specimens of typical forms were not easih' 

 accessible on this side of the Atlantic, and the photographic 

 camera and other appliances of which the modern artist can avail 

 himself, were not within reach of the engraver half a cen- 

 tury ago. 



From these and other causes the palfeontological references 

 and figures in Dr. Gesner's reports are crude and often difficult 

 to comprehend. Any errors into which the writer may have 

 fallen in the interpretation of this part of Gesner's work, ma}- 

 perhaps, on this account, be excused. 



The following outline references will enable the reader to 

 determine how far it will be necessary for him to study the 

 original reports. The marginal references are to the number of 

 the report quoted, and the page. 



I. 20. Johnston's and Simpson's Cove, Charlotte Co. Marl 

 with clam, mussel and scollop shells. [Post-pliocene, 

 Champlain.] 



1. 40. Grand Harbor, Grand Maium. Sunken forest in the 

 harbor. Pine, hemlock, cedar. [Recent.] 



T. 52. Lepreaii. St. .Tohn Co. Fossils of Fir tribe, feins. 

 stigmaria. [Little River Group.] * 



I. 70. Hartt's JMills, Oromocto, Conifera, Calamites in Car- 

 boniferous conglomerate. [Millstone Grit.] 



I, 74. Otnabog L., Queens C'o., one mile south of. Limestone 

 with annnonite [Nautilus] encrinite, trilobite, ostrea 

 [some other genus], Mya [Edmoniayi, area [^laci'O- 

 don?!, are counnon. [Lower Carboniferous.] 

 II. 7. "The Valley," [City of St. John], Mya, Pecten. Myt ilus. 

 and other shells in clay, eighteen feet above levi'l of 

 the sea. [Post-pliocene.] 



" The plants from this terrain have been determined by Sir Wm. Dawson. 



