60 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. vi. 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADx\. 



Alfred K. C. Selwyn, Director. 



The Report of Progress from 1866 to 1869 is a bulky volume 

 of 475 pages, with five maps, containing the results of a large 

 amount of work ranging over the whole vast territory from Lake 

 Superior to Nova Scotia inclusive. It embraces the following 

 documents : 



1. Letter of Mr. Selwyn introducing the Report. 



2. Report of Sir W. E. Logan on part of the Coal-field of 



Pictou, Nova Scotia. 



3. Report of Mr. Edward Hartley on part of the same Coal- 



field. 



4. Report of Mr. R. Bell on the Manitoulin Islands. 



5. Report of Mr. James Richardson on the South Shore 



below Quebec. 



6. Report of Mr. Henry G. Vennor on Hastings County, 



Ontario. 



7. Report of Mr. Charles Robb on part of New Brunswick. 



8. Report of Dr. T. Sterry Hunt on the Goderich Salt Re- 



gion, and on Iron and Iron Ores. 



9. Report of Mr. James Richardson on the North Shore of 



the Lower St. Lawrence. 

 10. Report of Mr. Robert Bell on Lakes Superior and Nipi- 



gon. 



11. Reports of Mr. Edward Hartley on the Coals of Nova 



Scotia. 



12. An Appendix, containing lists of Plants by Dr. John Bell, 



and a Note on the Nipigon Region by Sir W. E. Logan. 



Out of such a mass of matter it would be almost in vain to 

 attempt to select specimens of each of the separate treaties of 

 which the Report consists. A melancholy interest attaches to 

 that part of it which bears the name of Mr. Edward Hartley, a 

 young man of great ability and information, and high promise, 

 and whose work in this Report would alone be sufficient to give 

 him a permanent place among our scientific men, but who was 

 cut off by death in the midst of his practical and useful labours. 

 From his elaborate survey of part of the great Pictou coal-field, 

 we may extract the part having reference to areas, in which Ca- 

 nadian capitalists are largely interested : 



