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«lso found brokftn vertebrae of an Ichthyosaurus, 150 feot up 

 Iienclezvou8 Hi)', the N. W. extreme of Bathurst Ishintl. 

 Prof. Haughton observes in his appendix to McClintock's Nar- 

 rative of the Lady Franklin Expedition, ** Hut what are we to 

 say as to the question of Temperature? It was certainly 

 necessary for an ammonite to have a sea free from ice, on 

 which to float and bask in the pale rnys of the Arctic Sun J 

 and therefore I claim a temperature for those seas at h-ast 

 similar to that which now prevails in tli€ Ihitish Islands ; and 

 I may add that the ammonite from its haljits was essentially 

 dependent on the temperature of the air as well as that of 

 the water." 



I ^ould now take you to a locality where there is a remark- 

 able assemblage of these and other monsters which will ^et 

 ijlaim our attention. If they were living we would rather not 

 visit them, but as they are only lifelike, w<j can behold and 

 admire them, I shall never forget the occasion of my first 

 visit to this remarkable locality. In the memorable year 186'J, 

 I was invited to accompany the Geologist^s Association in their 

 visit to the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. After examining the 

 •wondrous structure and its contents, -our party inspected its 

 beautiful surroundings. Suddenly (to me) we came upou 

 •a bewildering spectacle — .i geological — bewildering, because 

 unnatural. Here we had a Carboniferous series. Limestone?^ 

 ■Coal measures with ceal seams, faulfee and usual phenomena 

 ■above the London Tertiaries. I had scarcely discov* id that 

 the whole was artificial when I heard my name calh . by the 

 President, Prof. Tennant, with the request that as the repre- 

 sentative of Nova Scotia and tlye exhibitor of the great 

 (Pictou) Coal Column, I should give a short lecture on the 

 representation of a coal field befctfe us. After this we were 

 'Conducted to what is called the Island. Here was subject of 

 greater marvel and astonish nent. A menagerie of monsters. 

 In this No. I will only give a list from proceedings of Geol. 

 Assoc, London : 



Labyrinthodon and DicynodoB of the Permian and Triassic Period^ . 

 Ichtbyosaucus, Plesiosaucus, Tjel&osaurus and Ptecocfkctyl of th£ 

 Siiassic. 



