166 Canadian Record of Science. 



List of the Published Writings of Elkanah 

 Billings, F.G.S., Palaeontologist to the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, 1856-1876. 



Prepared by B. E. Walker, F.G.S., Toronto, Canada. 



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Previous to 1854, the date of his first serious contribu- 

 tion to science, Mr. Billings was the editor of one of the 

 newspapers, the Citizen, in Ottawa (By town), Canada, and 

 it is stated that he contributed to its columns articles on 

 geology of a more or less popular character. No record of 

 these articles is made here. In 1856 he published the 

 first volume of the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. 

 The title page of this particular volume bears his name, 

 and he is supposed to have written all the articles not 

 specially indicated as from otlier contributors. Only one 

 paper contains an original description of a fossil, and in 

 the majority of cases they are articles about the wild 

 animals and the geology of Canada, such as might have 

 been contributed to a te.^t book. The second volume was 

 edited by a committee, aftd does not bear Mr. Billings' 

 name. He apparently contributed at least twelve articles, 

 some over his initials and some not, of which only eight 

 appear in the index. Other articles, not indexed or bear- 

 ing name or initials, may, of course, be by him. In any 

 event, no article by him in the second volume contains an 

 original description of a fossil or other natural object. 



In 1856 he was appointed Paleontologist to the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, and from 1857 to the end of 

 his life his puljlished works are almost entirely devoted to 

 the description of the great number of new genera and 

 species with which his name is associated. 



