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Prof. H. Y. Hind is then recorded, also his work in 1864 

 in New Brunswick published 1865. The labours of Charles T. 

 Jackson and F. Alger (1832), tog^ether with those of Sir William 

 Dawson in Nova Scotia (1855- 1878), are also referred to, as also 

 tho.se of Prof. H. A. Nicholson (1874-5) fof Ontario, and later, 

 reports of the Mining- Bureau of Ontario, under Mr. Archibald Blue, 

 and those of British Columbia by the various officers of that 

 province. Mr. Walker, who, from his high scientific attainments 

 and accurate knowledge of geology — with special reference to 

 that captivating department, palaeontology — and from his prac- 

 tical experience as a financier, has watched the work carried out 

 by the Geological Survey in Montreal, and later, in Ottawa, can 

 speak intelligently on this subject. He then goes on to describe 

 the present work of the Geological Survey, with its natural 

 history departments, as at present constituted. He points out 

 that " we should have the Dominion and Provincial surveys 

 working out the topography in'a tar more minute manner, and on 

 a greatly larger scale than at present." He points out also that 

 no surveying party is complete without a trained geologist and a 

 trained naturalist attached thereto, to record the economic 

 resources of the district surveyed. 



As to Public Museums, Mr. Walker has a word in season, 

 knowing as he does, the value of Canada's mineral resources, 

 being also well acquainted with the hundreds of thousands of the 

 specimens that have been examined, reported upon, and analyzed 

 by the Canadian Geological Survey, which specimens are now- 

 stored in the tottering and inadequate building, the so-called 

 National Museum on Sussex street, Ottawa. After describing 

 what a National Museum should contain (p. 14), he goes on to say: 

 •'The necessity of a new building at Ottawa is admitted. The 

 crime of leaving exposed to fire, in a wretched building never 

 intended to protect anything of value, the precious results of over 

 fifty years of collecting, has been pointed out in a recent official 

 report ; but the Government seem deaf to such claim. I can 

 only repeat that we are rich enough to bear the cost with ease, 

 but we are not intelligent enough to see our own interest in 

 spending the money." 



