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The entire list of papers published on the geology of Canada 

 'proper, or old Canada, prior to 1843, numbered about fifteen. Of these 

 two were by Dr. Bigsby, two by Capt. Bayfield, R. N., two by Capt. 

 Bonnycastle, R. N., and six by Lieut. Baddeley, R. E., so that it may be 

 said that our geology of that time was largely in the hands of the army 

 and navy. That much of the work then done was of a high order is 

 evident from the tributes subsequently paid to these observers by Sir 

 William Logan, who, in the preface to the Geology of Canada, 1863, 

 speaks of them as follows : 



"Admiral Bayfield has communicated to the Literary and His- 

 torical Society of Quebec and to the Geological Society of London 

 various interesting papers on subjects connected with Canadian geology, 

 with the facts in which it will be found that we have on several 

 occasions availed ourselves. 



" Among the pioneers of Canadian geology no observer was more 

 accurate than Dr. J. Bigsby, Secretary to the Boundary Commission 

 under the Treaty of Ghent. His range of investigation extended from 

 Quebec to Lake Superior, and beyond the limits of the province in that 

 direction, and he has accumulated and published a great store of facts 

 upon the exactness of which the greatest reliance can be placed. 



"Lieut., now Major- General, Baddeley, of the Royal Engineers, 

 when in Canada, now nearly forty vears since, was an ardent promoter 

 of geological enquiry, and his services were made available by the Pro- 

 vincial Government in explorations in the region of the Saguenay and 

 in the Peninsula of Gaspe. To him we are indebted for the first pub- 

 lished notices of the lower Silurian limestones of Lake St. John, Bay 

 St. Paul and Murray Bay, as well as of the existence of gold in the 

 drift of the Eastern Townships. Lieut. F. L. Ingall was another 

 explorer who, about that time, did good mir eralogical service in Gov- 

 ernment expeditions ; the district to which his attention was directed 

 being the country between the St. Lawrence and the Ottawa. Capt. R. 

 H. Bonnycastle, R. E., at a somewhat later period, interested himself 

 in the examination of various mineralogical and geological phenomena, 

 more particularly in the neighborhood of Kingston, where his military 

 ■duties had placed him. The results of his observations were given in 



