Field Notebook: New Bruswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario 1900, 1927
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Aug 11 Saturday. Ottawa. The Geological Survey Museum is in a temporary square structure of quarry struck stone. Inside, the large labels are seen upon the ends painted on the top side and outside of the cases (made of white paper) which inside on the engraved surface the effect is good. The numbers on all the specimens are probably slips pasted on the material. "Cape Bon Amie M.B." is used very often for the Dalhousie locality. "Cape Bon Amie Bay" for the others. The common species from Dalhousie is Lab. S. cyclostoma. Cypra asparreta from C.S.A.M.B. The matrix is quite different, seems like fm 2 loc. "Ss. Miculites (S. radiata)" for Dalhousie looks good, like a Retro-lance. Not proper in some cases, indicates Phys. shells from Dalhousie lot. R. modestula. "Ss. crista" from Dalhousie appear like smooth S. cyclostoma little shells. Iodospila cast from "Cape Bon Amie M.B." but the specimen is wet here. "Amisay" fossil case in marble, E.-2,3 & 6". On each with two.