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term of office, about 1881, and is now on exhibition in the Pleistocene 

 case at the Geological Museum on Sussex street. 



Several papers bearing on the Geology of this district have appeared 

 from time to time in the Naturalist during the past year. 



The Director of the Geological Survey of Canada (Dr. Sehvyn) has 

 undertaken to publish a series of Geological maps of this portion of 

 Canada and entrusted this work to Dr. Ells who is also one of the 

 leaders in Geology of our club. I have no doubt that he will find useful 

 and interesting material in the published records of the geology of 

 Ottawa or in the unpublished notes of the leaders in geology. 



Records and notes have been kept during the past fifteen years at 

 least, an amount of useful information which will be useful in preparing 

 a more detailed and accurate geological map than has heretofore been 

 published. Early in the spring of '94, one of your leaders, the writer, 

 issued a chart of the Geological formations of Ottawa and its environs 

 extracted from a paper published in 18S8 on the formations of this 

 district. 



What is now required is a good topographical map of this district 

 upon which to lay the geological features. Considerable difficulty has 

 been met in the fact that the surveys on the Ontario side do not 

 correspond with those on the Quebec side of the Ottawa and require 

 to be corrected at numerous points. Considerable progress however 

 was made in this direction by the late Mr. Scott Barlow, Chief Draughts- 

 man of the Survey, and this branch of the Club's work looks forward to 

 the time when such a map will be prepared for the Ottawa district. 



In the meantime a great deal remains to be done in geology about 

 Ottawa The structure and composition of the older crystalline rocks 

 at our very door, their origin and age are only begining to be studied 

 and understood, whilst the fossiliferous rocks always prove to the 

 diligent searcher that many forms new to science are still awaiting to be 

 discovered. 



In conclusion we trust that good results will long continue to be 

 forthcoming in this branch of the Club's work. 



(On behalf of the leaders) u A| Ami 



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