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of Europe. It is also to be observed that, as Gardner points 

 out, there are some differences indicating a diversity of 

 climate between Greenland and England, and even between 

 Scotland and Ireland and the south of England, and we 

 have similar differences, though not strongly marked, be- 

 tween the Laramie of Northern Canada and that of the 

 United States. When all our beds of this age from the 

 Arctic sea to the 49 th parallel have been ransacked for 

 plants, and when the palssobotanists of the United States 

 shall have succeeded in unravelling the confusion which 

 now exists between their Laramie and the Middle Tertiary, 

 the geologist of the future will be able to restore with 

 much certainty the distribution of the vast forests which 

 in the early Eocene covered the now bare plains of interior 

 America. Further, since the break which in Western 

 Europe separates the Flora of the Cretaceous from that of 

 the Eocene does not exist in America, it will then be pos- 

 sible to trace the succession of plants all the way from the 

 Mesozoic Flora of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the 

 Kootanie series described in previous papers in these trans- 

 actions, up to the close of the Eocene, and to determine for 

 America at least, the manner and conditions under which 

 the Angiospermous flora of the later Cretaceous, succeeded 

 to the Pines and Cycads which characterized the beginning 

 of the Cretaceous period. 



Squirrels : their Habits and Intelligence, 

 with Special Reference to Feigning. 



By T. Wesley Mills, M.A., M.D., Professor of Physiology, McGill 

 University. With an Appendix by Robt. Bell, M.D., LL.D. 



(Abstract of a Paxjer read before the Royal Society of Canada.) 



The writer believes that the comparative method should 

 be applied to the psychology of animals, and in his paper 

 compares the intelligence of the various species of squirrels 

 with each other and with that of other rodents. He thinks 

 the evidence derived from his own studies and the 

 accounts of others, warrants the conclusion that the intelli- 



