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from an area in northern New Brunswick, where a Bower Helder- 
burg fauna with corals is prevalent. 
The known facts relative to the early geology of this region 
would lead to the conjecture that during the greater part of 
earl)’ Palaeozoic time this part of Acadia was cut off from the Laur- 
entide region of Quebec and from the Archaean areas of New Eng- 
land by one or more sounds of the sea, and that the peninsula of 
Nova Scotia, with probably a portion of the earth’s surface to 
the south-west of it, now submerged, was the nucleus of the 
Acadian land; this is more clearly shown in Silurian time than 
earlier, by the abundance and variety of the fossils, and their 
wide distribution. 
Protected from the arctic winds of the Labradorean region 
by the warm currents of the sea to the north, this favoured 
land had every opportunity to develop a remarkably varied 
and highly organized land vegetation such as has not been recog- 
nized in rocks of this age in any other part of the world. 
In a future paper we shall show how the marine barrier, 
separating this Acadian Atlantis from the adjoining continent, 
was removed and how in, and subsequent to the Devonian 
time representatives of its flora were spread over the continent 
southward and westward, finding there new homes and develop- 
ing into new species and mutations, while the original home of 
these plants became the abode of another type of vegetation, 
namely, the Devonian type that had flourished in Gaspe and 
the Baie Chaleur region in the earlier time. 
The munificent benefaction of $1,000,000 given by the late 
Morris K. Jessup to the American Museum of Natural History 
in the city of New York, will show the appreciation at which such 
institutions are held in the neighboring republic, and may stimu- 
late some liberal-minded Canadian to aid in a similar way the 
Museum of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. 
What this institution most needs at present is a liberal gift that 
will pay off its mortgage, aud enable it to devote all its funds to 
the advancement of its work in the lines of study and general 
improvement to which it is devoting its energies. 
