1902] Annual Report — Geological Section. 261 



common about this city, and the numerous accompanying pheno- 

 mena which these valleys invariably present, afford fertile subjects 

 for future study and research. There is a proposal to prepare at 

 no distant date a contour map of Ottawa and vicinity, so that 

 when this is an accomplished fact the interpretation of many 

 phenomena, especially in Pleistocene g^eology, will be g^reatly 

 facilitated and their correlation made easy. Such a map would 

 fill another long-felt want. 



* Pleistocene plants. The fossil plants collected by different 

 members of the Club and others at different times, were some time 

 ago forwarded to Prof. D. P. Penhallow of the Botanical Labora- 

 tories at McGill University, and he has kindly determined them, 

 and these are now all labelled by that eminent authority, so that 

 as soon as there is room to exhibit them in the National Museum 

 on Sussex street or in the new Museum to which we are all look- 

 ing with earnest hope, the extinct flora of the Green's Creek 

 period will be seen to advantage. From the last collections sent 

 to Prof. Penhallow by the writer he has determined no less than 

 nineteen species of plants from the marine fossiliferous clays of 

 Besserers Springs and adjacent shores of the Ottawa River. 



^^ Geology of the Principal Cities of Eastern Canada,^' by the 

 writer. In this paper, published by the Royal Society of Canada 

 last year, [ have endeavoured to put together in condensed form 

 the results of twenty-four years' work in the neighbourhood of 

 Ottawa. A table containing lists of the formations and of the 

 systems under which these fall, of the characteristic fossils they 

 contain, as well as of the thicknesses of the strata, constituting 

 each as known to date, are given, together with lists of the 

 localities where these formations may be studied to advantage. 

 This will, it is hoped, save much time and labour on the part of 

 those who will come after us in studying the geology of this part 

 of Canada. Similar lists and tables are also prepared for the cities 

 of Montreal, Toronto and Quebec by the writer, and by Dr. G. 

 F. Matthew for St. John City, N.B. Attention is called to this 

 paper on account of the reference to the Ottawa formations 

 therein contained. 



