CHAPTEE VI. 

 PLEISTOCENE FOSSILS. 



This chapter is necessarily for reference rather than 

 for reading. It represents, however, a large amount of 

 patient work, and furnishes some of the most important 

 data for conclusions as to the climate and physical con- 

 ditions of the Pleistocene age. In this connection it will 

 be observed that the greater part of the fossils recorded 

 are from the St. Lawrence valley and the Atlantic coast, 

 and from other areas in the arctic basin and west coast 

 which were submerged in the Pleistocene ; and that the 

 evidences of life belong chiefly, though by no means 

 exclusively, to the middle Pleistocene. 



The lists of Pleistocene fossils of Canada, published 

 previously to 1856 by Lyell and others, included only 

 about 26 species. In my papers published between that 

 year and 1863, the number was raised to nearly 80. 

 These lists were tabulated, along with some additional 

 species furnished in M.S., in the Eeport of the Geological 

 Survey for 1863, the list there given amounting to 83 

 species, exclusive of Foraminifera. In my paper on the 

 Post-pliocene of Ptiviere-du-Loup and Tadoussac, published 

 in 1865, I added 38 species, and in the " Notes on the 

 Post-pliocene of Canada " many others were introduced. 

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