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appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. He alse 
contributed a volume, entitled “The Geological History of Plants,” 
to Appleton’s International Scientific Series. In 1863 he published his 
of many years’ study of the fossil batrachians and the land animals of 
the Coal Measures of Nova Scotia. The earliest known remains ©! 
Microsauria were then discovered by him in the interior of decayed t 
stumps in the Coal Measures of South Joggins. The results of his 
papers which appeared from time to time. 
On taking up his residence in Montreal his attention was attracted 
Lawrence and of the Labrador Coast. The results of these studies 
appeared in a series of papers as the work progressed, and were finally 
embodied in a volume entitled, “The Canadian Ice Age,” which was 
issued in 1893, as one of the publications of the Peter Redpath Museum 
of McGill University. This is one. of the most important contributio 
to the paleontology of the Pleistocene which has hitherto appeared. 
Sir William’s name is also associated with the renowned Kozoon ~ 
Canadense, discovered by the Geological Survey of Canada in the 
Grenville limestones of the Canadian Laurentian, and described by 
him in 1864 as a gigantic foraminifer. Concerning this remarkable 
object there has been a widespread controversy and a great divergen 
. of opinion. The literature on the subject, which includes many papers — 
by Sir William, is qa voluminous, but the chief facts are summed | 
up in his book entitled “ The Dawn of Life,” which appeared in 1875. | 
Sir William was also a prolific writer of popular works on variot 
geological topics. Among these may be mentioned his “ Story of the 
Earth and Man,” his “Fossil Men and their Modern Representativ 
his “ Meeting Place of Geology and History,” and his “ Modern cl 
in Bible Lands.’ These books, all written in a very entertaining style, | 
had a wide circle of readers and many of them passed through several 
editions. 
Other volumes from his pen, as well as many papers ont 
to various religious publications, treated of the relations of science and 
religion. One of the earliest of these was entitled “ Archaia,” and 
