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from the autumn of 1868 to some time last winter, is simply incom- 
prehensible. 
To Prof, Hind belongs the credit of having declared that the 
old granitoid rocks of the region are clearly stratified gneisses, 
d at the base of the series in that region; as they are well 
cide to be on the north side of the Bay of Fundy, where = 
have been described as Laurentian, and examined by Dr. Daw 
son, hemes and Bailey. I had, "however, sought in vain for 
Eozoon in t serpen ntine-limestones of New Br unswick, but 
the receipt r ‘Prof Hind’s Si eliminary notice, recalled the Avieahe 
specimens, and recognized in them a form of Eozoon, which, how- 
ever, according to Dr. Dasestie: is specifically distinct from Hozoon 
Canadense. 
Montreal, June B: 1870. 
ity College.—The author of these works, the assistant of Prof. 
Sedgwick at Cambridge, states in his pr eface that they are por- 
tions of the Catalogue of the Woodwardian Muse This Mu- 
seum, through the labors mainly of Prof. Sedgwick, is rich in re- 
mains of Reptilians from the lower Cretaceous, and is unsurpassed 
large numbers of bones of Ornithosaurs are se In the first 
had before been done in connection with the subject of Pterosaurs, 
ils wi 
the whole vertebral co Sea, the bones of the fore limb, the scapu ula 
and coracoid, the femur and tibia, etc.) are situated as in birds, 
and indicate a similar system of air-circulation from the lungs, 
in 
brain, this organ having a very large ce rebrum, and, as seen from 
above, avery small cerebellum abutting against it and pressing to 
either side the optic lobes (instead of having, as in ordinary Rep 
e cerebellum behind separated from the cerebrum by the part 
called the optic lobes). Hence he concludes that the Ornithosaurs 
were hot-blooded, and makes of them a class of Vertebrates dis- 
tinct from both Reptiles and Birds. The subject is illustrated 
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