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threatened. The writer firmly believes, from a somewhat 

 long and carefal study of the conditions affecting these 

 rocks, both, in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick, that 

 these conclusions will not be so easily set aside. While 

 no one has greater respect for the work of the conscien- 

 tious paleeontologist than the write , and appreciation for 

 the assistance which has thus been rendered in working 

 out intricate stratigraphical details, it must be admitted 

 that occasionally confusion has arisen from the attempt to 

 work out geological problems in the office or the laboratory 

 only. These difficult problems can be solved largely by 

 careful field work, and instances are not wanting even in 

 the history of Canadian geological investigation, where 

 apparently conflicting testimony between the rocks and 

 their contained fossils has been readily harmonized so 

 soon as the true stratigraphic relations were understood. 



In connection with this question, it may not be out of 

 place to refer to some of Sir William Dawson's writings 

 relating to this subject. 



1856. Remarks on a Specimen of Fossil Wood from the Devonian 

 Rocks of Gaspe. Amer. Assoc. Sci , 1856, Pt. 2, pp. 174-176. 



1858. A Week in Gaspe. Can. Nat. and Geol., Vol. 3, pp. 320-331. 



1859. Fossil Plants from the Devonian Rocks of Canada. Quar. 

 Jour. Geol. Soc, Lon., Vol. 15. pp. 477-488. 



1859. Recent Researches in the Devonian and Carboniferous Flora of 

 British America. Can. Nat. and Geol., Vol. 4, pp. 297-298. 



1860. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian Rocks of Canada. Can. 

 Nat. and Geol., Vol. 5, pp. 1-14. 



1861. The Pre-Carb. Flora of New Brunswick, Maine and Eastern 

 Canada. Can. Nat. and Geol., Vol. 6, pp. 161-180. 



1862. The Flora of the Devonian Period in North-Eastern America. 

 Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, Vol. 18, pp. 296-330. 



1862. Fossil Plants discovered at Perry, Maiue. Portland Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., Vol. 1, Pt. 2, pp. 99-100. 



1863. Further Observations on the Devonian Plants of Maine, 

 Gaspe and New York. Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, pp. 458-469. 



1865. The Palfeozoic Floras of North-Eastern America. Brit. 

 Assoc. Rep., Vol. 35, pp. 50-51. 

 1868. Acadian Geology. 



