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and trust that the increasing appreciation of the value of 

 natural history studies to the industrial interests of the 

 Dominion may tend still farther in this direction, and 

 may cause our Government more fully to emulate that of 

 the United States in the practical cultivation of natural 

 history, at least for its industrial uses. 



" I shall be pleased if you will kindly present this note 

 to the Society at an early meeting. 



" Yours, very sincerely, 



" J. W.M. Dawson. 

 " J. S. Buchan, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, IST. H. S." 



Notes on Some of the Formations Belonging 



TO THE Carboniferous System in 



Eastern Canada. 



By H. M. Ami, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Considerable discussion has arisen of late amongst 

 European as well as x>rorth American geologists as to 

 where certain series of sedimeniary strata occurring near 

 the summit of the Palaeozoic should be placed, in the 

 Carboniferous system or in the Devonian. 



Whether certain other geological formations, occurring 

 in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, such as occur in the 

 New Glasgow District of Pictou County, should be 

 described as Permian or classed as Upper Carboniferous 

 or Permo-Carboniferous, constitutes another problem. 

 It is not within the province of this paper, however, 



