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Practical Hints to the Farmers of Nova Scotia on the Management and 
Improvement of Live Stock and on General Husbandry Compiled from 
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explanatory remarks 148 pp. 12 figs. Richard Nugent, Halifax, N.S. 
Contributions towards the improvement of Agriculture in Nova Scotia; 
with practical hints on the management and improvement of live stock. 
Compiled from Youatt, Johnston, Young, Peters, etc. By J. W. Dawson, 
M.A., F.G.S., second edition, revised and improved. Published under a 
grant of the Legislature, Halifax, N.S. Printed by Richard Nugent, 8vo, 
12 figures, 148 pp., including pl. 3. 
1855. 
Acadian Geology, an account of the Geological Structure and Mineral 
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Notice of the Discovery of a Reptilian skull in the coal of Pictou. (Read 
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On a Modern Submerged Forest at Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia. Quart. 
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On the Course of Collegiate Education adapted to the circumstances of 
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1856. 
On the Species of Meriones and Arvicolæ Found in Nova Scotia, Brit. 
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1857. 
Remarks on a Specimen of Fossil Wood from the Devonian Rocks (Gaspé 
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Natural History in its Educational Aspect. Barnard’s Amer. Journ. of 
Education, pp. 428-486, Art. II, June, 1857. (Extracts from the introductory 
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On the parallelism of the Rock Formations of Nova Scotia with those of 
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Archaia, or Studies of the Narrative of the Creation in Genesis. Mont- 
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On the Newer Pliocene Fossils of the St. Lawrence Valley, Proc. Amer. 
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