[ami] sketch of the LIFE OF DR. A. R. C. SELWYN, C.M.G. 187 



but also for exhibition purposes, were time aud again emphasized by 

 him, and it is no doubt owing to his determination and energy that 

 plans have been prepared for a national museum and practical steps 

 taken towards the erection of a building worthy of the country. 



In 1884 a committee oif the House of Commons was appointed to 

 investigate the work of the Geological Survey of Canada. The evidence 

 of personal animus displayed by Selwyn's antagonists in the progress 

 of the investigation conti^asted with the excellent work that had been 

 done by the Survey in the past years, what was being done at the time of 

 the investigation, led the government to further strengthen the hands of 

 the Director, and recommended the establishment of a division of mines 

 and mineral statistics, much in the lines laid down by Dr. Selwyn him- 

 self in 1870, but which, for reasons not stated, had not been effectively 

 carried out as expected. 



Mount Selwyn in the Peace River Pass ; Selwyn Inlet in the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands; Selwyn river. Cranberry river, British Columbia, 

 which enters the Fraser river, belbw Tête Jaune Cache, Selwyn range, 

 in Yukon Territory, are names of places called after the subject of this 

 sketch, and serve to perpetuate his name in the geography of the country 

 where his a,ctivities kept him for a quarter of a century. 



The following are some of the specieg of fossil remains which have 

 been named in his honour by various palaeontologists in Britain, Aus- 

 tralia and in Canada: — Neuropteris Selw7ni, Dawson; Cœnites Selwyni, 

 Nicholson; Ammonites Selwynianus, WHiiteaves; Leperditia Selwyni, 

 Jones; Cercopis Selwyni, Scudder; Menodus Selwyni, Cope; Lingulella 

 Selwyni, Matthew; Balanophyllia Selwyni, Dunca.n; Orthoceras 

 Selwyni, Billings; Prasopora Selwyni, Nicholson; Cyprœa (?) Selwyni, 

 McCoy; Trachodon Selwyni, Lambe; Goniograptus Selwyni, niihi. 



Selwyn received many honours in his day. Besides occupying manv 

 official and responsible positions appertaining to his office as head of 

 the Geological Survey of Canada in the different international exhibi- 

 tions, which entailed a great deal of executive ability and work, he was 

 created a C. 'SI. G. (Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. 

 George) by her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, who conferred 

 the honour upon him in person, Selwyn having been summoned to 

 appear at Windsor Castle during the summer of 1886. He was elected 

 a Fellow of the Eoyal Society of England, was one of the original 

 Fellows of the Eoyal Society of Canada, founded by the Marquis of 

 Lome, now Duke of x\rgyll, was President of Section IV. in 1882, and 

 was elected to the presidency of that Society in 1896. 



He also received the medal of the "Acclimatization Society " of 

 ]\Ielbourne, Australia, 1881. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws 







