400 GILPIN OBSERVATIONS ON SOME FOSSIL BONES. 



Hoar Frosts 67 Thunders 10 



Lightnings 13 Hails 2 



Rainbows 5 Lunar Halos 14 



Lunar Coronas 28 Solar Halos 9 



Days Sleighing 89 



The maximum temperature I know to be recorded here was 

 93^.1 on 9th August, 1872; and the minimum -15^.8 on 27th 

 January of this year. In 1873 the highest was 87. °5 on 31st July, 

 and the lowest —14^.4 on 30th January; giving an extreme range 

 of 101°. 9. The warmest day was the 3rd of August — mean 

 69'* . 54. The coldest the 30th of January—mean -2° . 18. 



Art. X. — Observations on some Fossil Bones tound in 

 New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada. By J. Bernard 

 Gilpin, B. A., M. D., M. E. C. S. 



These bones were taken from one of the cuttings of the Inter- 

 colonial Railway on the Jacquet River, Bay de Chaleurs, New 

 Brunswick. After cutting through sand and gravel for about 

 twelve feet, a bed of clay was reached. In this the bones were 

 bedded. Abundance of the following fossil shells were found with 

 them : 



Balanus hameri, Ascanius. 

 Fusus tornatus, Gould. 

 Succinum undatum, Linn. 

 JSFatica groenlandica. Perry. 

 Leda truncata, Gould. 

 My a arenaria. Linn. 

 My a truncata. Linn. 

 Tellina groenlandica. Beck. 

 Tellina proxima. Brown. 

 Saxicava rugosa. Linn. 



The cutting is forty feet above the level of the sea, and onC" 

 fourth of a mile from it, and on the north side of the river. The 



