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Selwyn, G. M. Dawson, R. Bell and 'J. W. Spencer, also by Messrs. 

 James Richardson, R. G. McConnell and J. B. Tyrrell. Sir William 

 Dawson has described the flora of the Cretaceous in Canada. Mr. 

 Tyrrell, Dr. Dawson and Dr. Rust have published papers on the 

 Foraminifera and Radiolaria of the same rocks, whilst the great 

 bulk of the fauna of the Cretaceous in Canada has been care- 

 fully described, figured and published by Mr. Whiteaves, Palaeon- 

 talogist and Zoologist to the Survey. 



Without making a single reference to his own personal work in the 

 elucidation and description of the fauna of the Cretaceous system of 

 Canada, Mr. Whiteaves indicates the results thus far obtained, and sums 

 them up as follows : 



FOSSIL PLANTS. 



98 species from Manitoba and the N. W. Territories. 

 52 do the Rocky Mt. Region. 



28 do British Columbia. 



1 do the Yukon District. 



179 species. 



OTHER FOSSIL REMAINS. 



"Before Confederation," Mr. Whiteaves states, "only fifty-five 

 species of fossils other than plant remains had been recognized or 

 described from the Cretaceous of what we now call Canada, and of 

 this number, thirty-two are from Vancouver Island and twenty- 

 three from the North West Territories. We have now 358 species of 

 animal remains from the undoubted Cretaceous rocks of the Dominion 

 and 394 if we include the Laramie. They are summed up as 

 follows : 



179 species from Manitoba and the N. W. Territories. 



13 do the Rocky Mt. Region. 



198 do British Columbia. 



7 do the Yukon District. 



394 species as the total number from Canada. 



In his work on the Cretaceous fossils of Canada, Mr. Whiteaves 

 has described all the material brought to him by the various exploratory 

 surveys in the great North West and the glass cases on the north side 



