90 Canadian Record of Science. 
A preliminary geological reconnaisance of parts of New- 
foundland was made by Prof. J. B. Jukes in 1839-40, and 
his results were contained in his Physical Geography and 
Geology of Newfoundland, published in London in 1841. 
In 1862 Mr. James Richardson made a geological examin- 
ation of the northern peninsula of the island from 
Canada Bay on the east side to Bonne Bay on the west, in 
connection with the Canadian Survey. I am indebted to 
Mr. James P. Howley the present government geologist of 
Newfoundland for the following notes on the origin of the reg- 
ular Geological Survey which is still in operation. In 1862 
or 63, Hon. James Rogerson, a member of the government, 
when on a visit to New York, had a conversation with the 
Hon. Mr. Archibald, the British consul general there, as to 
the mineral resources of the colony, when the latter recom- 
mended the institution of a geological survey and gave Mr. 
Rogerson a letter of introduction to Sir William Logan. 
He afterwards met Sir William, who entered warmly into 
the proposal and offered to send Mr. Murray to undertake 
the work. Mr. Rogerson communicated with Hon. Mr. 
(afterwards Sir) Hugh W. Hoyles, attorney general and 
premier of the island, who completed arrangements and 
obtained a grant of money from the legislature for begin- 
ning operations. The survey was under the honorary 
general direction of Sir W. E. Logan. Mr. E. Billings, 
paleontologist and Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, chemist and mine- 
ralogist of the Canadian Geological Survey gave Mr. 
Murray valuable assistance gratuitously from time to time. 
Mr. Murray ieft Montreal on the 18th of May, 1864, with 
Mr. H. H. Beckett, as assistant, in order to enter upon his 
new duties. On his arrival at St. John’s, he received more 
detailed instructions from Attorney General Hoyles and 
soon after commenced his field work, going first to the 
north-eastern side of the island. The next two seasons 
were devoted to the coast and interior of the western side. 
In 1867 Murray went to Paris to place a collection of the 
economic minerals of Newfoundland ‘in the Universal Ex- 
position which was being held there. An account of the 
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