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now going on in the arctic and boreal regions." " These are grave 

 accusations," he continues, "but I find none of the memoirs or 

 other writings of the current school of glacialists free from such 

 errors; and I think it is time that reasonable men should dis- 

 countenance these misrepresentations, and adopt more moderate 

 and rational views." 



Of course Sir W. Dawson cannot resisi the temptation of staling 

 as " an inevitable conclusion " (page 289) " that the origin of specific 

 types is quite distinct from varietal modification"; but this is a 

 cheerful side-thrust, as it were, in a work on quite another subject. 

 On page 36 the use of "Neozoic" as equivalent to "Tertiary" 

 seems unusual ; and on page 51 there is a sentence on the origin 

 of fiords, quoted from an earlier paper by the author, which 

 describes them as "often evidences of the action of the waves." 

 They may have nothing to do with glacial excavation, but still less 

 can they be regarded as products of marine erosion, unless the 

 author confines himself to the cases that he has specially examined 

 in Nova Scotia. 



G. A. J. C. 



Corrections. 



Vol. V., No. 6, April, 1893, p. 366, line 20 from top, for " $1.60 to 

 $2.00 " read "$160 to $200." 



Vol. V., No. 7, July, 1893, p. 433, in title of article and in head- 

 ings of following pages, for " Cambrian-Siberian " read " Cambrian- 

 Silurian." 



