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Cornbrash," published by the Palseontographical Society. Professor 

 John PhiUips, who then occupied the Chair of Geology at Oxford, 

 took a lively interest in these palgeontological investigations, and 

 subsequently referred to them in complimentary terms in his 

 " Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames." Dr. Lycett 

 also called attention to the discovery by Dr. Whiteaves of Bradfordiau 

 species at Islip, while subsequent workers in the same field, Mr. E. A. 

 Walford, Professor J. F. Blake, and the officers of the Geological 

 Survey, have acknowledged the value of these original researches. 



At intervals, during his residence at Oxford, Dr. Whiteaves 

 collected at other famous localities for Oolitic fossils, such as 

 Minchinhampton, and the neighbourhood of Stroud, Cheltenham, 

 Dundry, and Bath. He also did a little amateur dredging on the 

 coast of South Wales, near Swansea ; at Lamlash Bay, Arran ; and 

 off St. Heliers, Jersey. He was elected an Honorarj' Member of 

 the Ashmolean Society at Oxford in 1857, and a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society of London in 1859. 



In 1861 Dr. Whiteaves paid his first visit to Canada, landing 

 in Quebec early in June. After spending a few months at 

 and near that city and Montreal, he went with E. Billings (Palason- 

 tologist to the Geological Survey of Canada ^) to examine some 

 fossiliferons exposures on the Yamaska River, near St. Hyacinthe. 

 In the middle of December the tidings of the recent death of his 

 father reached him in Montreal, and he at once returned to England, 

 landing in Liverpool early in January, 1862. 



A few months later he recrossed the Atlantic, and visited New 

 York, New Haven, Philadelphia, Burlington (New Jersey), and 

 Cincinnati. At these cities he made the acquaintance of Thomas 

 Bland, Benjamin Silliman, J. D. Dana, Isaac Lea, G. W. Tryon, and 

 J. G. Anthony. He spent the remainder of the summer of 1862 in 

 Ohio, collecting and studying the land and fresh-water shells, and 

 especially the Unionidae, of the State, at Waynesville, Franklin, and 

 Columbus. He returned to Montreal via Lakes Erie and Ontario in 

 the late autumn of 1862. 



From 1863 to 1875 Dr. Whiteaves was Curator of the Museum 

 and Recording Secretary of the Natural History Society of Montreal. 

 During these twelve years he worked in its interests with Sir J. W. 

 Dawson, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, Elkauah Billings, 

 Di'. P. P. Carpenter, George Barnston, Professor R. Bell, and others, 

 and was a rather frequent contributor to its oflBcial organ, the 

 Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, which had been founded in 1856 

 by E. Billings. His special objects of study while connected with this 

 Society were, first, the land and fresh-water mollusca of Lower 

 Canada, now known as the Province of Quebec ; secondly, the fossils 

 of the Trenton, Black River, Chazy, and Calciferous formations of 

 the Island of Montreal and its immediate vicinity ; and thirdly, the 

 marine invertebrata of Eastern Canada. He carried on dredging 



1 Elkanah Billings, F.G.S., was bom in the township of Gloucester, near Ottawa, 

 in 1820. He was appointed Palajontologist to the Geological Siu'vey of Canada in 

 1856, and died in 1876. See Obituary, Geol. Mag., 1877, pp. 43-45. 



