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thirty years of his official connection with the Survey he ha& 

 published three descriptive and illustrated volumes on Canadian 

 Palaeontology or rather Palaeozoology, which were issued in parts at 

 varying intervals ; a " Catalogue of the Marine Invertebrata of 

 Eastern Canada " ; and rather more than 100 papers on Canadian 

 Palaeontology or Zoology. His palreontological publications are 

 based chiefly upon specimens brought in by the field geologists or 

 acquired from local collectors, but on various occasions he has 

 personally gathered fossils at many localities in the provinces of 

 Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba. With Drs. A. R. C. Selwyn, 

 Robert Bell, G. M. Dawson, G. C. Hoffmann, Professor Macoun, 

 and other members of the Staff, he has sedulously and persistently 

 striven to add to and improve the collections of the Survey, in 

 the hope of forming as large a nucleus as possible of a Canadian 

 National Museum, such as that which was contemplated by Sir W. E. 

 Logan in 1853. 



For the first twenty-five years of its existence, the Geological 

 Survey of Canada was only a Survey of the two provinces now known 

 as Ontario and Quebec. During those years its collections were almost 

 exclusively confined to the illustration of the geology, geological 

 economics, mineralogy, and palseontology of these two provinces. 

 Since the confederation of all the Canadian provinces, which was 

 commenced in 1867 and completed in 1873, the Survey has become 

 a Geological Survey of the whole Dominion. It was definitely 

 constituted a Natural History Survey, also, in 1877, and a distinct 

 department of the Civil Service of Canada in 1890. Its Museum 

 now contains large and important collections illustrative of the 

 botany, zoology, ethnology, and archaeology of the Dominion, as 

 well as of its geology and palaeontology. These collections, and 

 the memoirs and papers that have been based thereon, represent the 

 labours of two generations of specialists. In palaeontology the 

 Museum of the Survey contains the types of nearly all the species of 

 fossils that have been described in its publications. 



The premises in Montreal in which its collections were housed 

 from 1852 to 1881 ultimately proved to be quite inadequate for 

 their proper accommodation. The much larger and more commodious 

 buildings at Ottawa, into which the Survey moved in 1881, are also 

 now found to be far too small for its present and future requirements, 

 and the foundation of a new building for the suitable housing of its 

 present staff and collections was laid at Ottawa in 1905. 



Dr. Whiteaves is one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society 

 of Canada, and has contributed twenty-two papers to its Transactions. 

 This Society was founded in 1881 by the Duke of Argyll, who was 

 then Marquis of Lome and Governor General of Canada. From 

 1882 to 1899 Dr. Whiteaves was an active member of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected 

 a Fellow thereof in 1887. At its meeting in Montreal in 1882 he 

 exhibited and read a paper on some remarkable fossil fishes that 

 had recently been collected from the Upper Devonian rocks at 

 Scaumenac Bay in the province of Quebec, and from the Lower 



