Miscellaneous Intelligence. 79 
Mr. Billings was born near Ottawa City, on the 5th of May, 
1820, and died on the 14th of June, 1876. In 1839 he com- 
menced the study of law, and for seven years, beginning with 
1844, his pursuit was that of a barrister. or the four years 
following he added the duties of editor of the “Ottowa Cit- 
izen,’ 
d co 
foreign and North American British fossils as threw light on 
Canadian species, the remainder of his life was passed at Mon- 
treal, in the study of the Canadian collections, and in excursions 
ks of Canada and adjoining portions 
of the United States. Besides numerous papers contributed to 
sty moirs : 
illustrated monograph of Lower Silurian Cystidea and Asteriade, 
and on the Crinoidea of the same formation: these two memoirs con- 
stituting Decades 3 and 4 of “Canadian Organic Remains;” Paleo- 
a3 : é h nine plates and many 
Wood-cuts, 1874; and “ Catalogues of the Silurian Fossils of the 
Island of Anticosti.” 
Devonian formations was extensive and profound, and his deserip- 
elaboration of the remarkable, and still somewhat enigmatical, 
.tuna of the Quebec Group, of the south shore of the St. Lawrence, 
ja Eastern Canada, and of the northern extremity of Newfound- 
land. His paper “on the remains of the Fossil Elephant found in 
Canada,” and another on the bones of a Beluga dug up at Corn- 
Wall (Ontario), show that he was well versed in comparative 
pean Sh and many of his earlier contributions to the “ Canadian 
aturalist” bear witness to the eagerness with which he prose- 
; panadian Naturalis ies, vol. viii, 1863. 
t Read before the Natural History Society of Montreal, but never published. 
