

THE 



CANADIAN RECOED 



OF SCIENCE. 



VOL. Vni. JULY, 190L - No. 6. 



The Devonian of the Acadian Provinces. 



R. W. Ells, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



The publication in a recent number of this journal of 

 a paper by Mr. David White on " Certain Palasobotanic 

 Aspects of the Upper Palteozoic in Nova Scotia " ^ appears 

 to call for some comment in regard to certain statements 

 therein made. The paper seems, as a whole, to be written 

 in an apologetic spirit rather than from the argumentative 

 standpoint, and does not add greatly to our knowledge 

 regarding a somewhat complicated problem presented in 

 certain rock formations which occur both in Nova Scotia 

 and New Brunswick. 



Several other papers bearing upon this question have 

 recently appeared in the transactions of the Nova Scotia 

 Institute of Science ^ and elsewhere, and it is to be 

 deplored that a controversy should have arisen on what, 

 in the natural order of geological investigation, should be 

 a comparatively simple question. 



1 Can. Rec. Sci., Vol. VIII. , No. 5, Jan., 1901. 



2 Trans. N. S. Inst. Sci., Vol. X., pp. 162 and 2.35, Amer. Asssoc, Aug., 1S99. 

 Ottawa Nat., Vol. XIII., pp. 207, 256, Vol. XIV., pp. 1 and 99. 



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