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(3). “That this section recommends to the favorable consideration of the Council the proposal 
to assist Dr. Franz Boas, of Berlin, pecuniarily or otherwise, in his further explorations in Baffin 
Land, during the present year.” 
The officers elected for the ensuing year were :— 
Mr. T. MAcFARLANE, M.E., President. 
Mr. SANDFORD FLEMING, C.M.G., C.E., Vice-President. 
Mr. G. C. Horrman, F. Inst. Chem., Secretary. 
CHARLES CARPMAEL, President. 
G. C. Horrman, Secretary. 
Report of Section LV. 
The number of members of the Section attending the meeting was eight; but Mr. G. F. 
Matthew, who was not able to be present, sent two papers to be read. 
The following is a list of papers which were read, in full or by title :—-- 
I. Presidential Address on the Obligation of Geological Science to Canada. By Sir Win- 
LIAM Dawson. 
IT. The Fossil Flora of the Laramie Series of Western Canada. By Str Writram Dawson. 
III. Une Étude Géologique sur les phénomènes de contact entre les formations Siluriennes et 
Archéennes de la Province de Québec. By Asst J. C. K. LAFLAMME. 
IV. Quelques notes sur la pureté de la glace des riviéres, exposant surtout le résultat des 
travaux que j'ai faits à Québec dans le cours de l'hiver. By Agé J. C. K. LAFLAMME. 
V. Some recent additions to the list of Canadian Ferns. By Dr. T. G. W. Buraess. 
VI. On the Cambrian Faunas of Cape Breton and Newfoundland. By G. F. Marrarw. 
VIT. Illustrations of the Fauna of the St John Group. By G. F. Marraew. 
VIII. The Silurian System of Northern Maine, New Brunswick and Quebec. By Pror. L. W. 
BAILEY. 
IX. Notes on the Glaciation and Pleistocene Subsidence of Northern New Brunswick and 
South-eastern Quebec. By R. CHALMERS, communicated by Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
X. On some Marine Invertebrata, etc., from the coast of British Columbia. By J. F. 
WHITEAVES. 
XI. Illustrations of the Fossil Fishes of the Devonian rocks of the Dominion. Part I. By 
J. F. WHITEAVES. 
XII. List of the Crustacea collected by Dr. G. M. Dawson on the coast of British Columbia in 
1885. By Pror.S$. J. Smrra, of Yale College, communicated by J. F. Wurreaves. 
XII. On certain borings in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. By Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
XIV. Notes on some points in Arctic American Geology. By Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
XY. Notes on the Carboniferous marine limestone formation of the East River, Pictou County, 
N.S. By E. Grzprin, Jun. 
XVI. Preliminary Report on some Graptolites from the Lower Palæozoic rocks on the south 
side of the St. Lawrence from Cap Rosier to the Tartigo River, from the rocks of 
Orleans Island, Cap Rouge, and the Cove fields, Quebec. By Pror. CHARLES LAPWORTH, 
LL.D., (of Mason College, Birmingham, England), communicated by J. F. WuirEAves. 
XVII. Mechanism of Movement in Cucurbita, Vitis and Robinia. By Pror. D. P. PENHALLOw. 
The following resolution was passed unanimously by the section:—“That the Council be 
requested to memorialize the Government on the subject of the erection at Ottawa of a suitable 
building for a National Museum, to embrace the accommodation necessary for the Geological and 
