SecrioN IV., 1895. [101] Trans. B.S. C. 
ITI.— Notes on some of the Cretaceous Fossils collected during Captain 
Palliser’s Explorations in British North America in 1857-60. 
By J. F. WHITEAVES. 
(Read May, 1894, but revised to date.) 
The present communication is intended as a supplement to a paper 
published in the eleventh volume of Transactions of this society,’ in which 
an attempt was made to give a summary of the present state of our 
knowledge of the Cretaceous system of Canada, and more especially of 
that of its fossil flora and fauna. 
The Cretaceous fossils collected by Sir James (then Doctor) Hector 
in Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and British Columbia, during 
Captain Palliser’s explorations, which are of special interest to the student 
of Canadian geology on account of the early dates at which they were 
obtained, were referred to in this paper in as much detail as was then 
practicable, for, at the time when it was written, the writer had never 
seen any of the specimens themselves. Some of these fossils are still in 
the Museum of the Geological Society of London, but others have been 
transferred to the Natural History Department of the British Museum at 
South Kensington. The whole of those at Burlington House have been 
kindly forwarded to the writer, for examination and comparison, by the 
‘Geological Society, through its president, Dr. Henry Woodward, FRS, 
etc., and it is upon these specimens that the present paper is based, as 
the rules of the British Museum do not permit of the lending of any of 
its specimens. 
Provisional lists of the fossils collected were contributed by Mr. 
Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., to Sir James Hector’s classical paper “On the 
Geology of the Country between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean,” 
etc., published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of Lon- 
don for April, 1861, and to Captain Palliser’s official report published in 
1863. 
At the time these lists were prepared, the only illustrated memoirs or 
papers on the fossils of the Cretaceous rocks of North America that had 
been published were, Morton’s “Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the 
Cretaceous Group of the United States” (1834), and his descriptions of 
some new species of organic remains from the same rocks, published in 
volume viii., part 3 (1842), of the Journal of the Academy of Sciences of 
Philadelphia, both treating for the most part of fossils from New Jersey ; 
Ferdinand Roemer's “ Kreidebildungen von Texas” (1852); D. Dale 

1 “The Cretaceous System in Canada,” Trans. Royal Soc. Canada for 1893, vol. 
xi., sect. 4, pp. 3-19. 
