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cal Survey office. Professor R. Bell, now Acting-Director of the 

 Survey, and Mr. Ed. Hartley, were requested to undertake their 

 collection and arrangement ; Professor Bell in Ontario and Quebec 

 and Mr. Hartley in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It will 

 thus be seen that an effort at any rate was made to collect and 

 tabulate mining geological information, which, if carried out on 

 the scale Originally intended, would have been of immense value 

 to our country. In 1871, Mr. Selwyn was elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society of London, and in 1874 a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society. In 1876 he v>^as awarded the ** Murchison Medal" by 

 the council of the Geological Society of London in recognition of 

 his services to Silurian geology. In 1876, Mr. Selwyn was 

 assistant to the Canadian Commissioners at the Centennial Exhi- 

 bition held in Philadelphia, at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 

 1878, and at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 

 1886, and at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. All of these appoint- 

 ments involved an enormous amount of labour superintending the 

 preparation of descriptive catalogues and notes of the minerals and 

 rocks exhibited in the Canadian Court on each occasion. At Paris, 

 in 1878, he was chairman ofthejury on Cartography (Chevalier of 

 the Legion of Honour), while at Chicago he was one of the judges 

 in the Department of Mines. In 1881 he received the honorary 

 degree of LL.D. from McGill University in recognition of the 

 eminent services he had rendered to geological science. On the 

 organization of the Royal Society of Canada, he was chosen as 

 one of the original Fellows by the Marquis of Lome. Under his 

 direction the offices of the Survey were removed from Montreal 

 to Ottawa in 1881. In 1886 he was created a C. M. G. in 

 appreciation of his geological work. 



Dr. Selwyn remained in the active discharge of his duties 

 until the ist of January, 1895, when he was succeeded by the late 

 Dr. Geo. M. Dawson, C. M. G. In 1896, as Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey, he was elected president of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, and on the evening of May the 19th of that year, delivered 

 his address on "The Origin and Evolution of Archaean Rocks, with 

 remarks and opinions on other geological subjects; being the result 

 of personal work in both hemispheres from 1846 to 1895." This may 

 likewise be called his farewell address, for in the few remaining 



