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have discovered r. Hunt says it is agalmatolite or dysyntribite 
and it proves nothing; the rocks may be of Upper Silurian or 
Devonian age was not prepared to maintain that the ophite 
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It to me he said he had partly polished it by means of acid. 
turned out to be a very beaut and peculiar specime - 
ture. I had often examined the magnificent specimens of Eozonal 
serpentine which were exhibited in the Canadian department of 
the Paris Exhibition of 1867, which were afterward deposited in 
the Ecole des Mines of Paris. I also had received from a Bohe- 
mian geologist in Paris a specimen of ophiocalcite with Eozoon 
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was Eozonal so was the Nova Scotian, and that this was another 
_ evidence of the Laurentian age of the Nova Scotian rocks. 
simplicity and ignorance of facts advanced in the Eozonal contro- 
versy, I did not know that serpentines of all ages might contain 
species of the genus Eozoon. I pointed out the peculiar structure 
of the Nova Scotian specimen and its resemblance to that of the 
Bohemian to Mr. Hendry, already referred to. He express 
doubts on the matter of structure in both, as an unbeliever in the 
ozoon might do. out the same time Prof. Lawson of Dal- 
amined them, but replied that he wanted to see the real Hozoon 
Canadense Mr. Hendry confirms the above statements as far as. 
he is referred to, in the presence of Dr. How of Kings College and 
University, Windsor, to whose friendship and kindness I am in- 
debted for the loan of a copy of the number of the American Jour- 
nal of Science, containing Dr. Hunt’s article alread referred to. 
o the ome of 1869, I visited Montreal and took with me 
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idary’s workshop in Gabriel street. A day or two after, 
when I was rp ae in the same place talking with Sir W. Logan, 
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W. Logan in my presence to the effect that Dr. 
Honeyman had discovered a very interesting series of rocks; that 
