on the beautiful scenery of Cape Breton Island. The route until noon lay along the salt water lake called Little Bras d'Or. The train stops on one side of the water after the passage goes out and we ferry across when another train is in waiting. The scenery from now on is more inland and by 7 P.M. we are at Truro. Here we again change cars and wait until 10 P.M. when the train from Halifax arrives. I take the sleeper and enjoy a very clean berth. Sep. 23 Thursday St. John's Arrived here at 6.05 this morning, went to the Royal Hotel. At 10 called on Mrs, Matthews and spent the day with him examining the so-called German plants described by Darwin. Mr. White is more convinced than I am that these plants are Carboniferous in age. Certainly they are unlike German plants and are more highly developed than the plants of that age.