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the spot — to sleep in birch-bark tents with their feet to nightly- 

 fires at the entrance — to be thankful when they fell in with a few 

 wild onions to flavour their daily salt pork — to have their paths 

 disputed by occasional bears in quarries, on the river banks, or 

 the shores of the desolate Anticosti — and, worst of all, to have but 

 little of that direct sympathy and clear appreciation of the scien- 

 tific value of their labours of which men of science who work 

 amid their peers daily experience the value. The Government of 

 Canada may well be proud of Sir William Logan and his well- 

 selected staff, and the mother country has equal cause of gratu- 

 lation that the great Imperial celony has emulated her example 

 in founding, on a scale so large and efficient, a national work 

 which no civilized country should be without. 



ART. XXVI. — Figures and Descriptions of Canadian Organic 

 Remains. Decade III. 8vo. Pp. 102, with 12 plates, price 

 $1. Montreal: B. Dawson & Son. 



In a scientific point of view, this is the first instalment of work 

 of the Canadian Survey. The reasons for the early appearance, 

 of this the third part, and other matters connected with it, are 

 thus explained by Sir W. E. Logan in the preface : — 



" One of the subjects comprehended in the recommendation of 

 the Select Committee appointed by the House of Assembly, on the 

 Geological Survey, in 1854, was the publication of figures and 

 descriptions illustrative of such new organic forms as might be 

 obtained in the progress of the investigation. In compliance with 

 this recommendation, it was determined that the publication should 

 be made in parts or decades, after the mode adopted by the 

 Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, each part to consist 

 of about ten plates, with appropriate descriptive text, and to 

 comprehend one or more genera or groups of allied fossils, or the 

 description of several species, for the illustration of some special 

 point in geology. 



" The first part or decade was confided for description, in 1855, 

 to Mr. J. "W. Salter, one of the Palaeontologists of the Geological 

 Survey of the United Kingdom. This comprehends different genera 

 and species from one locality. Of these several are new, while 

 others are more perfect forms of species already partially described ; 

 and the general object is to exhibit a commingling of forms here- 

 tofore supposed to belong to distinct epochs. The plates of this 



