1902] Annual Report — Geological Section. 259 



Some of the lower strata consist of coarse sandstones with occa- 

 sional films of shaly or arg-illaceous materials interstratified. 

 Amongst the forms observed and not hitherto recorded from this 

 locality was the Lingtila Lyelli, Billings, described originally from 

 the Chazy of Allumette Island. A number of new tracks and 

 trails of marine organisms were also noted and a large suite of 

 specimens secured which will add considerable information to the 

 fauna of those seas whenever figured and described. 



Piiblicati07is, As stated at the outset, a number of contribu- 

 tions on the geology of the Ottawa district have been prepared 

 and published during the past year which will enable the student 

 of Geology in our midst to prosecute his researches with greater 

 facility. 



A Geological Map. 1 scarcely think that I am giving out a state 

 secret when I say that there is hope that before this season is over 

 the Geological Survey Department will have issued from its press 

 the long-looked-for map of the " Ottawa District." 



Thanks to the energy of Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn and of his 

 successor Dr. Dawson, as directors of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, the plan of issuing geological ma^s for the leading cities 

 or centres of activity and thought in Canada will find its expres- 

 sion in the issue of the first of the series in " A Geological Map of 

 Ottawa and its environs;" but whilst the initial steps were taken, 

 as remarked above, by Drs. Selwyn and Dawson during their 

 terms of office, it was reserved to Dr. Bell, acting Director of the 

 same Survey and also the President of the O. F. N. Club, to see 

 the practical completion of the work. 



The Club hails with special pleasure the publication of the 

 map in question, especially the Geological branch, for, within the 

 area covered by the map many of the geological phenomena 

 recorded and described in the Transactions of the Club for the 

 past twenty-two years are therein embodied. There is nothing 

 like a map on which one can lay down statements and facts in 

 geology and geography which is, according to the latest definition, 

 only a branch of geology, after all. Not only in the department 

 of Geology will the said map be of use, but also for the Botanical, 

 the Zoological and other sections of the Club. Faunal and floral 



