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REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL BRANCH, 1893-94. 



To the Council of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club : 



In presenting the report of this branch of the Club's work for the 

 past year, your leaders have to announce that considerable progress was 

 made in examining the geological features of the districts about Ottawa 

 and especially in the vicinity of the localities visited by the Club. 

 Reports upon the facts observed on the excursions have appeared from 

 time to time in the Ottawa Naturalist. 



On two occasions, at the general excursions to Wakefield in May 

 and to Rockland in July, your leaders performed the duties incumbent 

 upon them. At the latter place one of the leaders collected a large 

 amount of material in the way of rock-specimens and fossils from which 

 he prepared a paper entitled : " Notes on the Geology and Palaeontology 

 of the Rockland Quarries and vicinity, in the county of Russell, 

 Ontario, Canada." This paper has since been published* and contains 

 interesting reports on the chemical composition, the microscopic 

 characters and petrographical and other physical relations of the lime- 

 stone rocks in question. To Dr. B. J. Harrington, to Prof. H. P. Bovey 

 and to Dr. A. P. Coleman, the writer is indebted for reports on these 

 points. 



As sub editor in the department of Geology, Dr. Ami has 

 also prepared a number of interesting book notices and reviews of 

 articles of general as well as local value. It is to be hoped that in the 

 coming numbers of the Ottawa Naturalist there will be found notes 

 on mineralogy, stratigraphy, palaeontology and kindred departments of 

 geological research in regular and systematic sequence. 



There is a decided need of some publication here in Canada taking 

 hold of this important branch of work, so that we heartily recommend 

 the re-appointment of sub-editors in the various branches of the Club's 

 work by the incoming council for 1894-95. 



Early in the year two of the members ot our Club, hearing that 

 Mr. John Stewart was leaving the city, secured the balance of the 

 geological collections he had made about Ottawa and elsewhere during 



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