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who knew her heart and appreciated her bountiful stores. His 

 report on the g-eolog-y of Bow and Belly Rivers in the Report of 

 Progress for 1880-82 affords a condensed summary of his explora- 

 tions in the districts just east of the Foothill country. 



In 1883, Dr. Dawson was engag-ed along- the western slope of 

 the Rocky Mountains proper and had with him as assistant that year 

 Mr. J. B. Tyrrell who examined the geology and structure of the 

 Crow's Nest Pass with its great possibilities for Coal. In 1884 he 

 carried on explorations farther north in the Rocky Mountain and 

 Selkirks region and prepared a reconnaissance map and a report 

 giving the results, together with notes on the geology of the Red 

 Deer River country. 



In 1885, Dr.Selwyn was appointed as Canadian Commissioner 

 to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition and Dr. Dawson superin- 

 tended the work of the survey as Acting Director, and his time 

 was fully occupied in attending to the duties of the office, to the 

 shipment of the minerals and ores of the Dominion and cataloeuino- 

 the same as well as of editing the first Annual Report of the Sur- 

 vey's new series. However, he found time to write and publish 

 his own report on the Rocky Mt. region, and Dr. Selwyn makes 

 the following kindly allusion to his work : — 



"I wish here to record my high appreciation of the very able 

 " and efficient manner in which Dr. Dawson has performed all the 

 "work." 



Dr. Dawson was officially appointed to the staff of the Geol- 

 ogical Survey of Canada in 1876, as we read on page 7 of the 

 Report of Progress for 187:^-76, where Dr. Selwyn, then Director, 

 informs us as follows :— "Mr. G. M. Dawson, late Geologist and 

 Naturalist on the International Boundary Survey of the 4gth 

 parallel was appointed and has since been actively engaged in 

 exploration in British Columbia." It was during this first year 

 of Dr. Dawson's connection with the Canadian Survey that tha 

 Centennial Exhibition was held in Philadelphia and on page 2 of the 

 report just quoted one can see that even at that early date he had 

 the material welfare and prosperity of British Columbia at heart. 

 He contributed, we read, not a little towards the proper repre- 

 sentation and display of the then little known mineral resources of 

 the Pacific province, and not only were the minerals attended 

 to,^ but also the vegetable as well as the animal products of 

 British Columbia. 



