440 
BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
lesser perfection occurs in Cobscook Bay, and there are approaches 
to it in some of the passages in the Passamaquoddy region. 
There may be yet other methods of formation of waterfalls nob 
here considered;^ and there lies open to us an attractive field for 
investigation, not only in the search for new types of falls, but also in 
the examination, description and reference to their proper types of all 
the leading falls of the province. 
So far as concerns the economics of our water falls, it is plain that 
their value lies more in the past and future than in the present, for 
very few of them are now utilized, even of those which were once valued 
mill privileges. In the future, however, when fuel becomes dearer and 
methods of transmitting and storing power become improved, they are 
sure to rise again into lasting importance, and they may fairly be 
reckoned among the potential resources of the Province. It would 
be a great advantage from this point of view if exact data as to their 
height, volume, constancy and surroundings were available, such data 
as the United States Geological Survey has gathered for those of 
Blaine. T Such data could best be secured as a part of the work of that 
thorough topographical, economic and scientific survey of New' Bruns’ 
wick w'hich would be invaluable to the province in all of its greatest 
interests. The need for such a survey offers to some citizen of great 
wealth the opportunity to make to the province a gift of the most 
serviceable, lasting and satisfying character. 
49 . — The Origin of the NEtv Brunswick Peneplains. 
(Read .June 4, 1901). 
An important and very suggestive paper, entitled, “ The Physio- 
graphy of Acadia,’' has recently been published; by Dr. Reginald A. 
Daly, of Harvard University. The author deals chiefly with Nova 
Scotia, but refers also to New Brunswick, particularly its southern 
and eastern part. It is the object of the present note to inquire in 
how far his conclusions apply to New Brunswick as a whole. 
* Davis (Science xiv, 779, Nov. 1901^, reviews a paper by Sturm on the origin of water- 
falls. Two additional classes are recognized by Sturm, of which there are no cases known 
to me in New Brunswick. (1 ) W^here side streams bring in boulders (as in the canons of 
Colorado), and (2) where travertine is deposited in a channel as in Bosnia, 
t Nineteenth Report, vol. iv, 43 -.52. 
t In Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Geological Seiies, v, 73-104. 
