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Robert Wheelock Ells (1845-1911)
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photograph: Robert Wheelock Ells (1845-1911), c. 1899. Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada, 1872 - 1911. New Brunswick Museum (1987.17.501). The Campbellton Formation has yielded significant specimens of plants, early land animals and fish since William Dawson described some of the world’s oldest land plants in the mid 1800s. R.W. Ells found the first cephalaspid fish in 1881.
