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map of the region from Quesnel, British Columbia, to the junction of 

 the Peace and Smoky rivers. In 1876-77 (Report of Progress for those 

 years), " j^^otes on the Quebec Groupe' appear, a subject to which he 

 gave considerable attention, and in which he did much to differentiate 

 from that series those rock formations of volcanic origin. In 

 the report of 1877-78, pp. 1-5, further notes are given " On the Strati- 

 graphy of the Quebec Group" (of Logan) and older crystalline rocks 

 of Canada. This is said to be one of the best attempts ever made at a 

 systematic classification of the most ancient and difficult rock masses. 

 The following year's report (1878-79), Selwyn's work in the Eastern 

 Townships and other portions of Qiiebec is given, and a " Note on the 

 origin of granite treated as metamorphosed strata, not intrusions " 

 occurs in the Report of Progress for 1879-80, pp. 5-6. The same 

 report contains also an account of boring operations in the Souris Val- 

 ley in Assiniboia (pp. 1-11). On pp. 51-55a, The fossil plants col- 

 lected by Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn at Roche Percée and d.etennined by 

 Sir J. W. Dawson are recorded and described. His work on Lake 

 Superior Region during 1882 is embodied in the report for 1880-82, 

 pp. 16-17, together with a report on an exploration in Manitoba during 

 |he same year on the White Mud and Souris rivers. 



" On the geological nomenclature and colouring and notation of 

 maps " forms the topic of an important contribution from his pen, pp. 

 47-51, of the " Report of Progress " for 1888, followed by additional 

 notes on the geology of the southeastern portion of Quebec, pp. l-7a 

 and followed later in the report by a note on the acotiracy of the plan 

 of the mouth of the Moose river surveyed by R. Bell in 1883-84, besides 

 a summary of the work of Selwyn during 1883 on Lake Superior, on the 

 Souris coal district in Assiniboia and in the Cascade coal basin of British 

 Columbia. 



General View. 



Selwyn leaves behind him a career full of usefulness to the Empire. 

 His work was truly of an Imperial nature, for it extended not only into 

 various portions of Great Britain, but also of the distant colonies of the 

 Mother Country, to the Island Continent of Australia and to the Dom- 

 inion of Canada. For nearly eight years (1845-53) he laboured dili- 

 gently in England and Wales, for seventeen years (1852-1869) he carried 

 on geological investigation in Victoria, and spent twenty-five years addi- 

 tional in Canada, thus completing in December, 1894, half a century 

 of active geological work. He was not a voluminous writer for publi- 

 cation, but he was an excellent letter writer. He never spared himself 



