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23 on April 26th. The greatest mileage of wind recorded in one 

 hour was 50 on May 2nd, when the velocity in one gust was at 

 the rate of 80 miles per hour. (This is the greatest velocity ever 

 recorded here.) 



The sleighing of the winter closed on April 1st. The first 

 appreciable snow of the autumn fell on October 25th, but melted 

 as it fell. The first sleighing of the winter was on Nov. 29th. 

 Upper river navigation opened April 17th. Ferries were running 

 on April 22nd. Kiver open to ocean ships on April 27th. First 

 ocean ship arrived in port on May 2nd. 



Auroras were observed on 21 nights. Hoar frost on 23 days. 

 Fogs on 13 days. Lunar halos on 8 nights ; Lunar corona on 2 

 nights. Thunder storms on 12 days, and lightning without 

 thunder on 6 days. 



The red sky at sunrise and sunset was very brilliant in Jan- 

 uary and February. It has decreased in brightness, but has 

 been observable up to the end of the year. 



VIII. Notes on the Geology and Fossil Flora of 

 Prince Edward Island.* 

 By Francis Bain and Sir William Dawson. 



[In the Canadian Naturalist, the predecessor of this 

 Journal (Vol. IX, No. 9, New Series), Mr. Bain published some 

 notes on the geology of Prince Edward Island ; and the following 

 additional note is intended to be supplementary thereto, and to 

 refer more especially to the evidence of fossil plants in relation to 

 the arrangement of the formations of the Island previously pro* 

 posed by Mr. Bain.] 



The rocks of Prince Edward Island seem to me to be divisible 

 on the evidence of superposition and fossils into three sections, as 

 follows . — 



First. — The lower series of grey, brown, and red sandstones 

 and shales, termed by Sir William Dawson Perrao-Carboniferous 

 presenting a thickness of about 800 feet. This series contains 

 all the more decidedly Carboniferous plants found on the Island, 



* Communicated to the Royal Society of Canada at its meeting in* 

 Ottawa, May, 1885. 



