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cation me com raps but they form a very interesting group. 
Among th o palms, goa quite unlike anything before 
found on this nosh One ij new Phenicites, resembling 
Heer’s Manicaria formosa. The po but an imperfect fragment, 
wait 
cus ordi There is another — in the collection, 
a laurel (probably), fragments of two ferns mperfect for de- 
termination. n these planta paeehie most those 
described by spelen Bi ioe Mississippi, and I am inclined to 
want more material before venturing anything more than a sug- 
gestion to that effect. I trust you will be able to — other col- 
lections from Aaa plant-beds during the — sea 
Green ever s are generally not well ss served, and yet I 
] search at an locality where these plants sent me 
were obtained would result in the discovery of some fine t 
its. 
e aspect of the small group of plants now before me from 
Green River, is more tropical than any you have brought from the 
west, and, as we have reason to believe that our Eocene climate 
was warmer than the Miocene, and that from the Eocene epoch 
to the Glacial period a ab rogressive depression of temperature took 
“ “aioes Green River eds would seem to be of early rather than 
te ne.’ 
ship of Euskinciars on the grec which i is 600 feet or more  thiek, 
with some three intercalated bands of gneiss, is in some parts one- 
fourth graphite, and the whole is not less than 20 or 30 per cent 
graphite. In the adjoining township of Lochaber, a band of lime- 
stone whol re according to “pao an baste gate thickness set 
3500 feet. In view of the facts Dr. Daws adds “i scarcely 
an exaggeration to maintain that the anankiey of sale in the 
Laurentian an is equal to that in similar areas of the Carboniferous 
On oe ge of occurrence and origin the author uae 
“The beds o: hite near St. John, some of those in t the gneiss 
at deren in She 
and elsewhere in Canada are so pure and regular that one might 
