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whom we are all proud to recognize as one of the most prominent, not 

 only among Canada's, but the world's scientists, who, as the labors of 

 Dr. Gesner drew to an end, took up the work with renewed enthusiasm, 

 Tn the coui'se of his travels throughout the province in the discharge of 

 his duties as Superintendent of Education, Dr. Dawson, now Sir 

 William Dawson, acquired a store ol facts concerning the character and 

 distribution of the various geological formations far greater than Dr. 

 Gesner had been able to obtain. These facts were elaborated in much 

 greater detail than was possible bj his predecessor, owing to the great 

 and rapid stiides which had been taking place in the history of the 

 science, and were, in 1855, presented to the public in the first edition of 

 that celebrated work, the " Acadian Geology." It is not, probably, too 

 much to say that while Logan was so successfully carrying on his great 

 work in old Canada, Dawson, unaided, in his little province by the sea, 

 was doing work equally as faithful and as productive of great results, 

 and not only as the author of " Acadian Geology," but as a worker in 

 man}' other fields of science as well, the name of Sir William Dawson 

 will always stand prominent in the records of the science in Canada so 

 long as the study of Canadian geology exists. No one who has ever 

 studied carefully that great work on Nova Scotian geology as contained 

 in the last edition of the volume we have mentioned, can fail to be im- 

 pressed with the immense amount of painstaking research visible 

 throughout. Not only is this seen in the matter of stratigraphical 

 detail, but in the enormous amount of paleontological data there con- 

 tained. Of the studies of Sir William Dawson of the fossil floras of the 

 great Nova Scotia coal fields, and of the great amount of labor bestowed 

 upon the paleo-botany of the Devonian system of New Brunswick and 

 Gaspe, it need only be said that these remain and are accepted as stan- 

 dard works on these subjects everywhere at the present day. In the 

 pages of " Acadian Geology," also, we find an abundant store of facts 

 pertaining to the character and distribution of the fossils from every 

 formation from the primordial Silurian to the Triassic. His work was 

 not, however, confined to the one province of Nova Scotia. The assis- 

 tance he was able to render to the local geologists who were beginning 

 to decipher the complicated problems of structure in the adjoining Prov- 



