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GEOLOGY. 
Edited l)y H. M. Ami, M.A. 
The Geological Society of America. The fifth annual meeting 
of the Geological Society of America was held in Boston last December, 
26th, 27th and 28th, under the auspices of the Boston Society of 
Natural History and of the Geological Department at Harvard Uni- 
versity, Cambridge, Mai,s. 
Principal Sir William Dawson, Emeritus Principal of McGill Uni- 
versity, presided at the sessions for the greater part of the time, and was 
relieved by Prof. T. C. Chamberlain, of Chicago University, the new 
president-elect. Amongst the other Canadians present were : Mr. W. 
Mclnnes, Dr. F. D, Adams and Dr. H. M. Ami. Among the fellows 
recently elected are Messrs. T. C. Weston and E. D. Ingall, A.R.S.M., 
of the Geological Survey staff. A brief outline of the results of the 
meeting will be prepared for a future issue of the Naturalist. 
Mr. Tyrrell's journey. Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, of the Geological 
Survey staff, has just returned from his extended trip to the Western 
Extremity of Chesterfield Inlet. During his journey, Mr. Tyrrell and 
his staff endured many hardships but finally reached Fort Churchill on 
th^e Western Coast of Hudson's Bay where they were hospitably treated. 
Thence the party travelled southward until Selkirk and the C.P.R. line 
was struck, arriving home in Ottawa the second week in January 
having completed a circuitous route embracing some 4,600 miles. 
About 800 miles of that distance were by previously unexplored rivers, 
lakes and rocky land, the home of the barren ground caribou. 
Mr. Low's trip to Ungava Bay. News has reached the director 
and other officers of the Geological Survey from Mr. A. P. Low, B. A. 
Sc, who left Ottawa last April, 1883, and crossed the Labrador Penin- 
sula to Ungava Bay. From thence Mr. Low crossed to Hamilton Inlet 
on the East Coast where he will winter. In the spring he will retrace 
his steps and return to Ottawa in the fall of this year. 
