[Footnote 55: Page 33.--He was born on his father's farm, in the
township of Gloucester, near Ottawa. A bibliography, evidently prepared
by his own hand, is to be found in "Bibliotheca Canadensis," pp.
31-34. His most important memoirs are on the third and fourth Decades
and the Palæozoic fossils of the Canadian Geological Survey, in which
nearly all the genera and species of the fossils there described were
discovered by himself.]