588 THE J OORNALVOLMNGE OLOGY: 
arrangement and scientific treatment. Long collections of facts are 
given, which not infrequently have no close logical or causal connec- 
tion with each other. The book contains a vast amount of information, 
some of which is so incomplete as to be almost misinformation, 
arranged on the dictionary or encyclopzdia style — interesting reading, 
but rather disconnected. It is to be feared that a beginner would form 
a very hazy notion of the science of meteorology, particularly of the 
broad principles underlying the details of the science from a perusal 
of it. Asareference book on some points and a storehouse of facts 
it is valuable to the student. The series of weather maps already 
alluded to cannot fail to be of great assistance. lal, Ios IX. 
Aw-breathing Animals of the Paleozoic in Canada, up to 1894, 
ly Sm Wit, IDANWSON, CINLG., ILIL.ID, J JkoS. Trans. Roy. 
Soc. Canada, Section IV., 1894, pp. 71-88. 
“‘Our knowledge of the animal inhabitants of the land in Palzo- 
zoic time is very meager in comparison with what is known of marine 
creatures. There was probably less land in early Palzeozoic ages than 
later. Atmospheric conditions may have been less favorable to breath- 
ers in air. Life on land requires a higher nervous and muscular sys- 
tem than those necessary in water, and different means of respiration.” 
Animal life therefore probably originated in the waters. A long time 
may have been required to introduce the land life. The chances of . 
preservation of aquatic organisms were much greater than were those 
of terrestrial species. The paucity of land fossils may be accounted 
for by these less favorable conditions. 
The finding of Batrachian footprints by Logan in 1841 was the 
first indication of air-breathing vertebrates in the Carboniferous rocks. 
The first discovery of osseous remains of Palzeozoic land vertebrates 
in America was that of Baphetes planiceps found by the author in the 
Pictou coal fieldin 1850. The first announcement of Devonian insects 
_was from St. Johns, N. B., in 1862 by Hartt. Insects had previously 
been found in the Carboniferous of Europe, and have since been 
traced back to the Silurian. The earliest known Carboniferous. milli- 
pede was Xylobius sigillarte, discovered by the author in Nova Scotia in 
1858. Many millipedes have since been found in the Carboniferous 
and Devonian on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘The first known land 
snail was found by Lyell and the author at South Joggins in 1851. 
