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The researches of the officers of the Geological Survey of X Canada have brought to light, in the Devonian rocks of Scaumenac Bay and of Campbelltown, a series of fossil fishes which are of especial interest to the geologist as well as to the zoologist, on account of the analogies which they bear to the fishes of the Old Eed Sandstone of Great Britain. Principally collected by Mr. G. H. Foord, these fishes have been described by Mr. J. F. Whiteaves, and are indeed remarkable for their beautiful state of preservation, which enables them to throw fresh light on many points in the structure of these ancient forms.
Read before Section C of the British Association at Newcastle-on-Tyne, September 16th, 1889.
page 15 note 2 Am. Joum. Sc. and Arts (3), xx. 1880; Canad. Naturalist, n. ser. x.; Am. Naturalist, xix. 1885; Canad. Nat. and Quart. Journ. Sc. n.s. vol. x. 1881. Whiteaves, 's detailed descriptions are given in two quarto memoirs entitled “Illustrations of the Fossil Fishes of Canada,” from the Trans. Koy. Soc. Canada, vol. iv. sec. iv. 1886Google Scholar, and vol. vi. sec. iv. 1888.
page 15 note 3 On the position of the orbit in Phaneropleuron Andersoni see Traquair, GEOL. MAO. Vol. VIII. 1871, pp. 530–531.
page 16 note 1 GEOL. MAG. Dec. III. Vol. V. 1888, p. 511.
page 19 note 1 Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. xxx. 1881.
page 19 note 2 Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. xxvii. 1874.
page 19 note 3 Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. pi. xxxii. fig. 9.
page 20 note 1 Homosteus compared with Coccosteus, GEOL. MAG. Dec. III. Vol. VI. Jan. 1889Google Scholar, PI. I. Fig. 2 a, e.
page 21 note 1 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) iv. p. 183.