4'J^ hulli«:tin ok the natural history society. 
publications of lesser importance by other states. A most valuable 
summary of the forestry legislation of these states is given in a recent 
article, “Progress in Forestry Under State Control,” by Spalding, in 
Science, for December 28, 1900. 
The attention of young men in New Brunswick should be called to 
the fact that two universities, Cornell and Yale, have established 
schools of forestry. There can be no question that forestry is opening 
up to young men a most attractive and remunerative profession, and 
one which will be in demand in New Brunswick within another 
decade. 
45. — On the Physiographic History of the Tobique River. 
(Read February .5, 1901; re-written January, 1902.) 
In earlier notes I have tried to trace the physiographic evolution 
of two of the finest of our northern rivers, the Restigouche and the 
Nepisiguit ; I shall now attempt to treat in the same way the third of 
a noble trio, the Tobique. All three of these rivers are notable for 
their great natural beauty, but each has its own personality and differs 
from the others. The Restigouche is the lovelier, but the least varied. 
The Nepisiguit is the sterner, and the least friendly. The Tobique is 
the riper, most varied and most companionable. 
The reader can the better follow the present discussion if he has 
before him the excellent sheet of the Geological Survey including this 
river, from which the accompanying reduced sketch is taken (Map 
No. 1). Although both topography and geological boundaries are 
necessarily inaccurate in some details, we may, as a whole, assume 
their essential correctness. 
From our present point of view the Tobique falls into four portions 
as follows : (1) The river below the Forks, which I shall call the Main 
Tobique, (2) the Right Hand Branch, (3) the Little Tobique, and (4) 
the Mamozekel. Of these, all are a complete wilderness except the 
Main Tobique. I am personally acquainted with them all except the 
Mamozekel, and the following observations and conclusions have, for 
the most part, been worked out upon the ground. 
We must, first of all, note the general structure of the region. 
Excepting the Right Hand Branch, the Tobique flows southwest, 
approximately parallel with the line of contact of two distinct series of 
geological formations. On the southeast lie the Central Highlands, of 
