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and Trenton limestones of Jessups Rapids and of Lake Clear in 

 the valley of the Bonnechere were examined, in company with 

 Mr. J. McMullen, as was also the Chazy limestone of Golden 

 Lake, in the same district. Next, the village of Trenton, in the 

 State of New York, was visited, after which Mr. Billings pro- 

 ceeded to Belleville and Shannonville, and from thence to Guelph, 

 Gait, Duudas, Hamilton, Thorold, Port Colbome, and Cayuga. 

 Large collections of fossils were made at each of these localities, 

 many of which were described and figured in his report for that 

 year. 



His first and only visit to Europe was made in 1858. Leaving 

 Canada late in January, he lauded at Liverpool on the 11th of 

 February, and after a three days detention at that port, arrived 

 in London on the 15th. The objects of this journey were three- 

 fold : first, to superintend the illustration of Decades Nos. 1 and 

 3 of " Canadian Organic Remains" * in London ; secondly, to 

 compare a number of fossils from the Survey collection, which 

 he took with him, with types in European museums ; and thirdly, 

 to endeavour to secure the services of a professional artist for the 

 staff in Montreal. At the Museum of Practical Geology in 

 Jermyn Street, he was introduced by Prof. Ramsay to all the 

 officers of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and a work 

 room was set apart for his special use. He took lodgings in 

 Montpelier Square, Brompton, and carefully studied the Silurian 

 and Devonian invertebrates in the public collections of the me- 

 tropolis. With the late lamented S. P. Woodward he critically 

 examined the Canadian fossils in the British Museum collected 

 by Dr. Bigsby and others and described by Stokes, and compared 

 them with specimens recently brought by Prof. Hind from the 

 Saskatchewan district. The two species of Beatricea collected 

 by Mr. Richardson at Anticosti had been previously described 

 by Mr. Billings as plants, and specimens of each were submitted 

 to Dr. Hooker at Kew, who finally concluded that they did not 

 belong to the vegetable kingdom. Salter at the time maintained 

 that they were the tracks of some gigantic annelid, but this view 

 does not seem to have been received with much favor by palaeon- 

 tologists. During his stay in London, Mr. Billings went to a con- 

 versazione at Sir Roderick Murchison's, and on another occasion 

 had a Ions conversation with the late Lord Palmerston in the 



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