442 Dawson—-New Carboniferous Btarachians of Nova Scotia. 
even microscopic examination of the parts, they do not often 
furnish skeletons with their members in situ, as in many of 
those described by Von Meyer, Huxley and Cope. 
e tree of 1876 was found by me in “the reef” or extension 
of the sandstone seaward, and near the low-water mark. The 
upper part of the stump, probably filled with sandstone, had 
been removed by the waves, but about two feet of the lower 
art remained. It was extracted with as much care as possible 
y two miners with picks and crowbar, and the disk-like frag- 
ments, into which it naturally split, were carried up to the foot 
of the cliff and subsequently numbered and dissected at leisure. 
In the hurry of working against time to escape the tide, the 
men it seems left in the hole a portion of the lowest layer, and 
a fragment of an upper one. The former was afterwards re- 
moved by Mr. J. C. Russel of Columbia College, New York, 
and the latter was found by Mr. Hill. Both have been kindly 
placed in my hands by these gentlemen, so that the whole of 
the material has been collected and carefully labelled, in 
such a manner as to keep together the parts belonging to each 
skeleton. 
where named Trigonocarpum sigillarie. In some places - 
sediment was finely laminated, the laminz being often muc 
contorted. In other places the earthy matter existed in pee 
a 
tons recovered in a more or less complete state was no 
thirteen in all, belonging probably to six species, besid Is 
bones contained in Coprolites, and several Millepedes, and it 
of Pupa vetusta, the latter almost entirely in the lowest layers. 
e first animal introduced was a specimen of Hy!@7] rt 
Dawsoni Owen, whose bones and scutes, after decay of ¢ 
