74 The Ottawa Naturalist. July 



BOOK NOTICKS AND REVIEWS. 



Canadian Surveys and Museums, and the need of increased 

 EXPENDITURE THEREON. Proceedin_srs of the Canadian Institute. 

 (Issued as a separate pamphlet, 15 pp.) By B. E. Walker, 

 Esq., F.G.S., President. 



Following up the remarks made by Dr. G. M. Dawson in his 

 inaugural address as President of the Royal Society of Canada in 

 1894, Mr. Byron E. Walker, of the Canadian Institute, Toronto, 

 (a Society which has now reached the 51st year of its existence,) 

 draws attention to two very live practical questions of the day, 

 viz., National Surveys and Museums. The place that these 

 occupy in the economy or government of a country like ours, their 

 value and the extent to which they ought to be supported and 

 fostered, has been treated in a masterly way in the above paper 

 read before the Institute last November. 



Mr. Walker first reviews the work of the early explorers and 

 surveyors of British North America, in which he notices the names 

 6i Admiral Bayfield (1814), Lieut. Baddeley and- Sir Richard 

 Bonnycastle (1829), Prof. A. Lockwood, Ma)or Samuel Holland 

 (1748) and his grand-nephew Lt.-Col. Joseph Bouchette (1832), 

 Dr. J. J. Bigsby (1819), Samuel Hearne (1769-1772), Sir Alexander 

 MacKenzie (1789), Capt. George Vancouver (1790-1795), David 

 Thompson (17S4-1850), Sir John Franklin (1819-1822), Capt. John 

 Palliser, Blakiston, Hector and G. Gladman (1857-9), Henry Youle 

 Hind, W. H. E. Napier and S. H. Dawson (1857), John Keast 

 Lord (1868-82) and Dr. G. M. Dawson (1874-75). 



Mr. Walker then calls attention to the United States surveys 

 and explorations carried on by the Federal Government before the 

 establishment of a regular geological survey. He then describes 

 in broad general outlines the geological and survey work carried 

 on in the old Province of Canada under Sir William Logan, Alex- 

 ander Murray, James Richardson, Robert Bell, E. Billings, A. 

 Michel and Thos. Macfarlane. Referring to work done in other 

 provinces he notices that of Dr. Abram Gesner (1838-1844), J. F. 

 W. Johnston (1850), L. W. Bailey (1864), G. F. Matthew, L. W. 

 Bailey and C. F. Hartt (1865). Work in Labrador (1861) by 



