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I.—Eminent Living Geologists:

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
Affiliation:
Palæontologist, Zoologist, and Assistant Director, Geological Surrey of Canada; Hon. Memb. Ashmolean Soc. Oxford, Yorkshire Phil. Soc., Nat. Hist. Soc. Montreal, and Hist. and Scient. Soc. Manitoba.
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We are glad to intróduce to our readers a portrait and some account of the life-work of the distinguished Palæontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada, who has now held the office for thirty years.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 1906 , pp. 433 - 442
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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page 434 note 1 Elkanah Billings, F.G.S., was born in the township of Gloucester, near Ottawa, in 1820. He was appointed Palæontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, and died in 1876. See Obituary, Geol. Mag., 1877, pp. 43–45.

page 435 note 1 The Assistant Directors were originally four in number, viz., Dr. Robert Bell, now Chief Geologist also; Dr. G. M. Dawson, who died in 1901; Dr. B. J. Harrington, who resigned in 1881; and Dr. Whiteaves. Drs. Bell and Dawson represented Field Geology; Dr. Harrington, Mineralogy and Chemistry; and Dr. Whiteaves, Palæontology. Dr. G. C. Hoffmann and Professor Macoun were since appointed assistant directors, the former in 1883, the latter in 1887.