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had been sent back to the Ottawa to explore, and 

 just before Sir William's departure had sent in 

 some specimens from a new locality at Petite 

 Nation, similar in general appearance to those 

 from Grenville, which Sir William took with him 

 unsliced to England. These showed in a perfect 

 manner the tubuli of the primary cell-wall, which 

 I had in vain tried to resolve in the Grenville 

 specimens, and which I did not see until after they 

 had been detected by Dr. Carpenter in London. 

 Dr. Carpenter thus contributed in a very important 

 manner to the perfecting of the investigations begun 

 in Canada, and on him fell the greater part of 

 their illustration and defence,^ in so far as Great 

 Britain is concerned. 



The immediate result was a composite paper in 

 the Proceedings of the Geological Society, by Sir 

 W. E. Logan, Dr. Carpenter, Dr. Hunt, and myself, 

 in which the geology, pakeontology, and mineralogy 

 of Eozoon Canadense and its containing rocks were 

 first given to the world.^ It cannot be wondered 



* In papers by Dr. Carpenter, subsequently referred to. 

 Prof. Jones published an able exposition of the facts in the 

 Popular Science Monthly. 



" In Quarterly Journal of Geological Society^ vol. xxii. ; Proc. 



