358 DR. HONEYMAN’S WRITINGS—GILPIN. 
His name, so far as I can learn, first appears in our Transactions 
in the record of a meeting held May 8, 1866, when he contributed 
a paper on the Geology of Antigonish. As at this time he 
was elected an associate nember. I presume he had not yet re- 
moved from Antigonish to Halifax. In December of the same 
year he read a paper on the Gay’s River Gold Field. This dis- 
trict has not as yet proved equal in economic importance to 
many others, but it is specially interesting from a geological 
standpoint. In many countries rivers flowing across auriferous 
strata have accumulated at favorable points deposits of sand and 
gravel carrying particles of free gold. Afterwards the courses of 
these rivers have been diverted by natural causes into different 
channels, and the gold-bearing gravels have become accessible to 
the miner. These deposits sometimes occur concreted or hardened 
or covered with trap, modern soil, etc. The interest that at- 
taches to the Gay’s River mines is that this ancient beach or bed 
is not a modern one but of paleozoic age, a basal conglomerate 
of the Carboniferous, thus proving that the gold was introduced 
before the Carboniferous measures began to form, and presents an 
interesting and almost unique proof of the similarity of Geologi- 
cal action in very early times to that now going on. 
In 1867, at the Paris Universal Exhibition, his services were 
also called into requisition, and his exertions secured another 
medal for the Provincial Government. 
About this time the Doctor began to pay more attention to 
lithology, and remarked : 
“ Before 1867 I had devoted my attention almost exclusively 
to paleontology—to the collection of fossils, their study and cor- 
rellation—to the association of fauna, their distribution and the 
conditions under which they ‘lived, moved and had their being.’ 
Availing myself fully of ny advantages I made a special study 
of the Arisaig series of fauna, in order to mark the first appear- 
ance of new forms, their culmination and disappearance. When 
it is taken into consideration that this field is almost entirely 
fallow, that its strata are so replete with organisms, that they 
have been exposed for ages to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, lining the 
shores with fossiliferous boulders, requiring only the application 
