Preliminary Note on Recent Discoveries 



FiG. 1.— Section of tree No. 1, Division 4, Section XII., Coal-group 

 26, of South Joggins section ; as observed in situ by Mr. P. W. 

 McNaughton. (Scale 2 feet to an inch.) 



Enclosing Bed?.— (1) TJnderclay ; (2) coaly layer; (4) alternations 

 of shale and sandstone, 5 feet 2 inches; (4) shale, 2, feet 6 

 inhes; (5) sandstone, 12 feet. 



Filling of Trunk.— (A) Mineral charcoal and thin carbonaceous 

 laminae. (B) Arenaceous and argillaceous matter, irregularly 

 bedded and with many vegetable fragments. (C) Sandy lay- 

 ers, depressed in centre, with occasional shaly bands and 

 vegetable fragments ; remains of land animals up to top of C> 

 (D) Barren sandstone, same with overlying bed. 



