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concerned, it approaches most nearly to the fossils 

 known as Loftusia in the Carboniferous and 

 later formations, and these are generally regarded 



Fig. 57. 



-ArchcEozoon Acadiense, Matthew. Diagrammatic transverse 

 and longitudinal sections of a small specimen. 

 Specimen in Peter Redpath Museum. 



as Foraminiferal. We may thus have another 

 giant Foraminiferal organism which contributed to 

 the building up of rocks in the Laurentian seas. 

 This discovery is also of importance as connecting 



