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human agency. It should also be noted, that this station, as I am 

 informed by Rev. Mr. Wright, is near au extensive glacial moraine 

 which traverses that district, and which he has traced for a great distance 

 northward. 



Asa Gray. 



It will be observed that we have now knowledge of six stations 

 in Nova Scotia, two in Newfoundland, two in Massachusetts, and 

 one in Maine, making in all eleven stations on the Atlantic sea- 

 board of North America. 



G. L. 



Art. IX. — A Note on the Caribou. By R. Morrow. 



(Read March 13th, 1876.) 



In Captain Hardy's " Forest Life in Acadia," page 125 is the 

 following : 



" With regard to the barren ground Caribou {R. grcenlandicus) 

 " being distinct from the larger animal of the forests, the separation 

 " of the two as species by Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 " tution at Washington, ****** joined with the 

 " opinion expressed by Sir John Richardson * * *. * * * 

 " and the further testimony of Dr. King, surgeon to Back's expedi- 

 " tion, appears to leave no room for doubt ;" and again, " Dr. King 

 " mentions that the barren ground species is peculiar not only in 

 " the form of its liver, but in not possessing a receptacle for bile." 



Referring to the above, I would like to record in our Transac- 

 tions the following note : 



Our Caribou (woodland var.) has a peculiar liver, rather small, 

 ovate, long diameter nine inches, short diameter six inches, (from 

 an animal supposed to be about eighteen months old,) situated on 

 the right side, long diameter nearly parallel with the back bone, 

 divided almost in the centre by a shallow sulcus, and having a 

 protuberance, or small somewhat conical lobe, which the butcher 

 calls a button, upon the upper part of the concave side with a broad 



