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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DR. GEORGE MERCER DAWSON.* 



By H. M. Ami, of the GeoIo§;ical Survey of Canada. 



In a new country like Canada, pioneer scientific work must of 

 necessity be of a general rather than of a more specialized and 

 restricted type, and the numerous contributions to the scientific 

 lore of the Dominion trom the pen of Dr. George Dawson partake 

 essentially of the former type, though in not a few instances has that 

 eminent geologist and thinker left behind him a record of facts of 

 a particular and special nature which show clearly that he had a 

 mind capable of grasping the minutest details of a critical study. 



His scientific activities extend over a period of some thirty- 

 two years, and during that time not a single year elapsed without 

 some contribution from his pen. His writings are chiefly geologi- 

 cal, but they also include important reports and papers on the 

 natural history of Canada. He devoted much of his leisure hours 

 in preparing succinct reports on the economic resources of the 

 Dominion, but first and foremost with regard to the mineral pro- 

 ducts of British Columbia and adjacent portions of the North West 

 Territories. 



Dr. Dawson's contributions to forestry are well known and 

 supply a fund of useful and ready information whose value cannot 

 be overestimated. The climatic conditions which prevail over the 

 wide areas which he explored have been carefully tabulated and 

 described, and will serve as a permanent record of the greatest in- 

 terest and value. In the varied and abundant nature of his 

 researches, Dr. Dawson was ever looking to the future growth 

 and development of Canada and the Empire. 



In preparing the accompanying list of Dr. Dawson's writings 

 the writer has made liberal use of the bibliographies published by 

 the Royal Society of England, the Royal Society of Canada, and 

 N. H. Darton's Index of Contributions to the Geology and 

 Palaeontology of North America, supplemented references from 

 his own card Catalogue. 



* For Biographical sketch of Dr. Dawson, see Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. XV, No. 2, pp. 43 to 52, May, 1901. 



