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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
NOTE BY THE EDITOR. 
Relating to the Life of Dr. A. Gesner^ the Geologist. 
In Bulletin XIV of this Society will be found a life of 
Dr. Abraham Gesner, who made the first geological survey 
of this province. Many interesting incidents of Dr. Gesner’s 
career are given in this biography, and it led to the writing of a 
letter from a grandson of the geologist to the secretary of this 
Society, giving additional details of Dr. Gesner’s lineage, and a 
correction on one point : 
“Arthur T. Gesner, Assistant Rector of the Shattuck Military 
School, Farebault, IMinn., the writer of this letter, says that the 
founder of the family in America was John Gesner, of Old Tap- 
pan on the Hudson. His son, John Gesner (Jr.), born 1724 * * 
and his wife were buried in the old graveyard at Old Tappan. 
Of their eight children, six sons and two daughters, Henry was 
the ancestor of the Nova Scotian branch; he married Sarah 
Pineo, May 4, 1786. Of their twelve children, Abraham (the 
sixth) was born May 2, 1797, at Halifax, lies buried in the Camp 
Hill cemetery in that city.” This was the geologist. 
Mr. Gesner also claims that the story that Major Andre was 
executed on the property of the Gesner family is a “ tradition,” 
and not substantiated. 
