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Doug-lastown and St. John rivers in 1845, o^ Richardson on 
the Magdalen river and upper part of the Dartmouth in 1857, 
and of Bell on the Dartmouth, York and Malbaie rivers in 
1862. Sir William Dawson, also, made extensive collections 
of fossils around the shores of Gaspe bay in 1858 and 1869, 
and Dr. Ells a general geological survey of the Gaspe penin- 
sula, from Gaspe basin to the Matapedia river and from the 
St. Lawrence river to the Baie des Chaleurs in 1880-83, ^'^^ ^ 
similar survey of the Devonian basin of the Causupscal river 
in 1884. 
The collections made by Sir William Dawson in 1869 added 
thirteen additional species of fossil plants to the flora of the 
Gaspe sandstones, and these species were described and illus- 
trated in the first part of his memoir on the "Fossil Plants of 
the Devonian and Silurian Formations of Canada," published 
by the Canadian survey in 1871. The "Geology of Canada," 
published in 1863, contains lists of some of the marine inverte- 
brate fossils of the Gaspe limestones and sandstones, collected 
by Logan, Dawson and Bell, and these fossils were more fully 
determined or described by E. Billings in the first part of the 
second volume of Palaeozoic Fossils, published by the Canad- 
ian survey in 1874. A small species of Cephalaspis, also, 
collected by professor G. T. Kennedy, then one of Sir William 
Dawson's assistants, from the Gaspe sandstone on the north 
side of Gaspe bay, in 1869, was described and figured by pro- 
fessor Ray Lankester, in the Geological Magazine for Sep- 
tember, 1870,* under the name C. dawsoni. 
In the "Geology of Canada" it is stated that the "lime- 
stones of cape Gaspe appear for the most part to belong to the 
Lower Helderberg group. The fossils at the summit, how- 
ever, bear a striking resemblance to those of the Oriskany for- 
mation, with which several of them are identical. It appears 
probable, therefore, that we have here a passage from the 
Lower Helderberg to the Oriskany, and the latter formation 
may be more especially represented by the lower part of the 
Gaspe sandstones." Eleven years later, in 1847 f E. Billings 
expressed the opinion that the low^er 330 feet of the Gaspe 
*Volume VII, page 397. 
tGeological Survey of Canada. Palaeozoic Fossils, vol. II, part i 
page I. 
