278 Scientific Intelligence. 
" leozoic series in regions so remote as Texas, the Upper Mississippi, the 
Lower St. Lawrence and the shores of the Baltic, is a fact worthy of fur- 
ther attention, and I shall send you my detailed popeee at an early day. 
Montreal, Feb. 1st, F002. 
tions. The following note from Mr. Marsh sets the matter right. —s. 
“The Saurian vertebrae from the J oggins coal ete of N i pine? 
tia, alluded to in Prof. Agassiz’s letter in your January number, were not 
discovered last summer as the notice stated, but in n Adz 1855, 
was examining that locality in company with Park o 
ver, the hope of obtaining further remains I hav hitherto 
deferred publishing any account of these remarkable fossils. A rece 
re-examination of the locality, however, afforded nothing of a similar 
phe and’ +s see no reason for Jonger delay in announcing the epen 
vertebrxe were imbedded i in a stratum of shale which forms Le 
xxvi in the section made of this formation in 1852 by 
limits. It is beneath stint 5000 feet of coal strata containing 4 
twenty separate veins of coal. 
“The vertebra are about two and a half inches in transverse baa 
flattened and deeply biconcave. They resemble in form the vert cee 
an Ichth arrgnens ae t the time of the discovery I referred them 
eat su ba comparison showed some points of difference, 
but the Eadiasitks Sharacters appeared to be equally mar I 
AS these remains are alates! distinct from any known aes 
rus 
tion of thie Skil with plates, will sppss in the next number of 
Journal of Science Very truly yours, O. C. Mans#. 
AS College, oa 10th, 1862.” 
‘anadian Pleistocene Fossils and Climate. Ere pakeie in th 
per "published | in the Canadian Naturalist, gives a more complete been 
the fossils of the drift in Maine, Canada, Labrador, he ha has ah 
before presented, and makes some interesting deductions ‘from them voth e 
vs to the physical geography, climate, de. of that part of the “jf 
continent during that perio clusion 
1cts now given, and others before reported, the cone” 
ive proportion of dry land surface in the arctic regions 
rate zone bie nag — greater than now. 
B j 
ea = ” | b = Ue 
Canada ; by Prof. J. W.D Divebe: “ULD. &c., (Canadian Naturalist, 
| toni a former paper Prof. D. re ribes a large — 
