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in a rather poor woodcut - He says that he fitted up an artificial head ("embracing the bones that had been preserved") for the skeleton while serving in the capacity of curator of the State Cabinet, in order to make it more attractive to visitors. 

In 1863 in Logan's Rept of the Geol. Sun. of Canada, p. 919, it is stated in the thick clay in the backyard of Messrs. Peel & Courte, [[insertion]] Montreal [[/insertion]] there were found

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Spec. 2.
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"several of the caudal vertebrae of a cetacean, [[underline]] Beluga Vermontana. [[/underline]]

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Spec. 3
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In 1883, J. W. Dawson in underline]] Amer. J. Sci. [[/underline]] p. 201, stated that he had found detached bones of [[underline]] Beluga [[/underline]] in the Postpliocene clays of Riviere du Loup, and that 

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Spec. 4.
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considerable portions of a skeleton on the South side of Baie des Chaleurs, in excavating for the Intercolonial RR. &  described by Gilpin.

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Spec. 2?
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He says also that bones were found in the brick clays near Montreal, apparently referring to the statement of Logan, just cited; also 

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that "a specimen" was found in sand near Cornwall, Ontario. He says the last was compared with recent bones in McGill Coll. Mus. by E. Billings and concluded

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John William Dawson, Sir