igoi] Ami — Annual Address. 207 



"American Journal of Science and Arts," New Haven, the "Geo- 

 logical Magazine," London, and the "Journal of the Canadian 

 Institute," Toronto. 



He was an indefatigable worker. From early morning till late 

 at night he was at his desk, and later on at home into the hours 

 of night he carried on his studies, and thus accomplished much in 

 those twenty years of official connection with the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. 



Billings left behind him a large amount of unfinished work, 

 numerous and important lists of organic remains bearing upon the 

 geology ot the older Provinces of our Dominion. Many of these 

 lists would form most important contributions to Canadian Geologi- 

 cal Science, should they ever be published. As noted by Dr. Whit- 

 eaves in his obituary noticeandin Memoriam paper Can., Nat. and 

 Q.J.S., vol. iii., No. 5, p. 261, "Mr. Billings died before he 

 could describe the whole of the material he had studied and care- 

 fully examined, including collections by Sir Wm. E. Logan and 

 Prof, (now Dr.) Robert Bell, at Gasp^ ; Mr. T. C. Weston, at 

 Arisaig; T. Curry, at Port Daniel and Bay of Chaleurs. The whole 

 of the material from these localities had been carefully examined> 

 and it only remained to write the " descriptions of the different 

 species, but this, alas, he was not destined to accomplish." 



Those who had the pleasure and privilege to know Mr. 

 Billings state that he was characterized " by great firmness and 

 decision and an unswerving love of truth and justice, by an un- 

 affected and winning modesty of demeanor;" 



To do him honour and tell the world of science what Billings 

 did for Canadian Geological Science many a palaeontologist in 

 America and Europe has named genera and species after him. The 

 genera Billingsia, Billingsites, Billingsella, Elkania, have been 

 erected by Walcott, Hall, Ford and Hyatt, whilst upwards of 

 thirty species of corals, crinoids, brachiopods, lamellibranchiata, 

 gasteropods, cephalopods, ostracods, trilobites and other fossil 

 organic remains have his name affixed as their specific names. 



The Bibliography of Mr. E. Billings, prepared from my card 

 catalogue of contributions to Canadian palaeontology of some 

 years' standing, which last year was withdrawn for a season, will 

 it is hoped, form an appendix to this already too long address. 



