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Matthew's system has prevailed with little modification. He 

 was himself doubtful as to the Cambrian or Ordovician age of Division 

 3 of the St. John Group and the position of the Coldbrook. A. O. 

 Hayes in the Summary Report of the Geological Survey for 1913 gives 

 an interesting table of the stratigraphy of the St. John region, which 

 is reproduced in part below: — ■ 



HAYES' TABLE OF NEW BRUNSWICK STRATA 



15 Recent 



14 Pleistocene 



f Red Head 

 13 Carboniferous ■{ Mispeck 



[ Bloomsbury and Little River 



12 



11 



10 Cambro-Ordovician St. John Group, Div. C3 



f St. John Group, Div. C2 

 Cambrian -] St. John Group, Div. CI 



l^ Etcheminian 

 9 Cambrian? 



May be Pre-Cambrian Coldbrook 

 8 Called Pre-Silurian by 



Bailey. May be Pre-Cam- 

 brian Kingston 

 7 Pre-Cambrian Portland 

 6 Age uncertain. Older Portland 

 than 13 



This table indicates that the complicated geology of the Lower 

 Palaeozoic and Pre-Cambrian of the maritime provinces is not yet 

 entirely solved. Matthew's work is pre-eminent here and one can 

 not close this section without a final tribute to his long labours — -his 

 indefatigable field work, his application of phylogenetic methods, his 

 palaeobotany of the Carboniferous, Devonian, and Silurian, his 

 work on amphibian footprints, and above all his rigid and consistent 

 refusal to divorce palaeontology from stratigraphie geology. 



In closing, also, mention must be made of the excellent contri- 

 bution to palaeobotany by Miss Marie C. Stopes, "The 'Fern Ledges' 

 Carboniferous Flora of St. John, New Brunswick," being Memoir 

 No. 41 of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



Province of Quebec 



Advances in stratigraphie geology in Quebec during the past 

 twenty years are difficult to review, being many and varied but for 



