1914] The Ottawa Naturalist. 109 



But the most productive area that has come to my notice 

 is one much nearer to Victoria, and which I explored earlv in 

 this year on behalf of General de Lamothe, of Paris, who visited 

 Victoria in company with several Canadian geologists last year 

 after the meeting of the International Congress. Following 

 along the line of a hollow between Spring Ridge and the Protestant 

 Orphanage, where I had previously made many finds, I at length 

 found a recently constructed main sewer passing through an 

 abandoned vegetable garden, bounded on the west bv Cook 

 Street. 



Again, after digging through an extensive peat bed, contain- 

 ing freshwater sh' lis in perfect condition, at about foiir feet from 

 the surface vast quantities of marine shells had been exposed, 

 together with two species of barnacle and a few fragments of 

 elk-horn, apparently cut by a blunt instrument. 



Here I added to my list the following Gastropods: Natica 

 clausa B. & vS. (of immense size), Naiica pallida B. & S., 

 Margarita pupilla Gld., and Acmaea alveus Conr., a species 

 which lives on eel grass growing in shallow, quiet waters. To 

 the bivalves were added a Macoma like balthica L., Paphia 

 staminea Conr., Schizothaerus nulallii Conr., and Zirphaea 

 crispaia L. 



About three years ago Mr. Harold Hannibal, of Stanford 

 Uniyersity, Cal., visited Victoria and accompanied me to 

 the Pemberton locality first noted above, and, later, examined 

 alone, the Lost Lake region. The results of these examinations 

 and of explorations in the Puget Sound country is given in a 

 report by Dr. Ralph Arnold and himself entitled "The Marine 

 Tertiary Stratigraphy of the North Pacific Coast of America," 

 contributed by them to the Proceedings of the American Phil- 

 osophical Society, Vol. LIT, No. 212, 1913. To the raised 

 beach formations just mentioned and to similar ones in Puget 

 Sound and the wStrait of Georgia, the authors, on page 597, 

 apply the name The Saanich Formation (Pleistocene). 



A partial list of fossils collected by various geologists and 

 by myself in Victoria, and on the shores of various places to the 

 north and east was published by me in the Catalogue of the 

 Provincial Museum, Victoria, in 1898. This list will reqiiire 

 considerable revision in the light of later knowledge. The species 

 named include manv which were fotmd in the lower clavs 

 forming steep cliffs here and near Comox, and islands in the 

 Strait of Georgia, and also from the sandy layers superimposed 

 on Cretaceous rocks at Sucia Island. Mr. Bauerman, Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson and Mr. Lamplugh, of the' Geological Survev of Great 



