440 THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION 
Among the workers in the eastern portion of the province 
who have aided materially in elucidating points of structure may 
be mentioned the name of Mr. R. Brown. From his intimate 
connection with some of the leading coal mines of Sydney, Mr. 
Brown enjoyed great facilities for studying the rocks of the Car- 
boniferous formations in that area, and he has contributed much 
valuable information regarding the arrangement and distribution 
of these rocks for that portion of the province. Some of the 
results thus obtained have appeared in the Journal of the 
Geological Society of London, the first article being apparently 
printed in 1853, as well as in more recent publications. 
The association of Sir William Dawson with Sir Charles 
Lyell in 1842, greatly stimulated the love of the former for 
scientific investigation, and for many years thereafter much of 
his spare time was devoted to the study of the rocks in his native 
province. From his position as Superinterdent of Education, 
which appointment he held for some years previous to his removal 
to Montreal as principal of McGill University, he was enabled to 
visit many localities where interesting problems of structure 
were presented. 
Sir William was an early contributor to the scientific journals, 
since we find a communication from his pen in the Journal of the 
Geological Society for 1842 on some geological phenomena which 
he had observed in Prince Edward Island. Many of his papers, 
more especially in the early years of his work, were read hefore 
the Geological Society, of which body he soon was appointed a 
fellow. Up to the date of his death, which occurred near the 
close of 1899, his pen was rarely idle, the list of his published 
writings reaching a total of nearly four hundred, in which are 
included many books of much interest, some of which dealt 
exclusively with scientific matters, while others had a wider 
scope. 
The first of these volumes relating to the geology of the 
maritime provinces was his “ Acadian Geology,” the first edition 
of which appeared in 1855. A second edition, much enlarged, 
was published in 1868, and this was added to by a supplement 
