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 Superintendent 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 before 

 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 



