[lambe] progress of VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY 38 



Kcd Deer river and the Cypress hills in an endeavour to obtain collec- 

 tions as representative as possible of their fossil vertebrate remains. 

 This result is, however, an excellent example of the advantage to be 

 derived from careful palœontological field work and systematic col- 

 lecting. 



It may certainly be said that we have so far made fair progress 

 in the vertebrate palaeontology of this country if we take into considera- 

 tion, the very limited number of those who have devoted any time to the 

 study of the fossil vertebrata of the Dominion, and how few have been 

 the attempts made to secure a really representative collection of the 

 vertebrate remains of any particular series of beds. 



If we consider the magnificent results attained by the various 

 institutions of some countries and the extensive collections exhibited in 

 their museums, knowing that, throughout the Dominion generally, but 

 particularly in the wesft, equally good results are forthcoming if proper 

 means are taken to secure them, then we should realize the fact that 

 as yet we have only made a beginning. 



SPECIES AERANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR GEOLOGICAL 



AGE. 



SILURIAN. 



Class Agnatha. 



Cyathaspis acadica (Matthew). Nerepis hills, King's county, 2s'ew 

 Brunswick. Thought to be of Niagara age. 



Class Pisces. 



Dendrodus arisaigensis, Whiteaves. Upper Arisaig series, McDonald 

 brook, near Arisaig, Nova Scotia. (Lower Helderberg group.) 



LOWER DEVONIAN. 



Class Agnatha. 



Cephalaspis campielltonensis, Whiteaves. Campbellton, New B.-uns- 



wick. 

 Cephalaspis sp. Campbellton, New Brunswick. 

 Cephalaspis daivsoni, Lankester. Casfe, Quebec. 

 Cephalaspis jexi, Ti'aquair. Campbellton. New Brunswick. 



Class Pisces. 



Protodtis jexi, A. S. Woodward. Campbellton, New Brunswick. 

 DoUodus prohlcmaticus (A. S. Woodward). Campbellton. New- 

 Brunswick. 

 Climatius latispinosus (Whiteaves). Campbellton, New Brunswick.. 

 Spine of f Acanthodian fish (Homacanthus gracilis, W^hiteaves).. 

 Campbellton, New Brunswick. 



Sec. IV., 1804. 3. 



