[ HARRINGTON | GEORGE MERCER DAWSON 191 
graphical Society. In 1900, he was President of the Geological Society 
of America, and gave his retiring address at the Albany meeting in 
December, choosing as his subject “The Geological Record of the 
Rocky Mountain Region in Canada.” This address was published as a 
bulletin of the Geological Society of America, and will be prized as giv- 
ing a summing up of his latest views on some of the problems connected 
with the complex geology of the west. Many other distinctions which 
cannot be enumerated here fell to his lot, and he won for himself the 
esteem and confidence of his fellow-countrymen in all parts of the 
Dominion. Nowhere was he more beloved than in British Columbia 
— the province in which he had done so much of his best work, and in 
which, he sometimes said to the writer, he would like to spend his last 
days. 
After the Toronto meeting of the British Association, in 1897, 
he accompanied a party of the members on a trip across the continent, 
and all were struck with the warmth of the welcome everywhere 
accorded to him. “ Among the many distinguished visitors,” wrote the 
Victoria Colonist, “ by whose presence Victoria has been honoured dur- 
ing the past few days, none holds a higher or more deserved place in 
the esteem of Canadians than George M. Dawson. In one sense he is 
the discoverer of Canada, for the Geological Survey of which he has 
been the chief, has done more than all other agencies combined to make 
the potentialities of the Dominion known to the world. He has been 
engaged in the work so long that he can look back over it with the pro- 
found satisfaction which comes from the knowledge that his judg- 
ment on points of extreme interest and value has been justified ny 
events. The development of Kootenay, the hydraulic mines of Cariboo, 
and the gold mines in the Yukon are all foretold in the interesting 
pages of Dr. Dawson’s earlier reports. Therefore, when we find in the 
voluminous products of his pen, wherein the results of his observations 
are recorded, anticipations of great mineral development in parts of the 
province that are as yet unexplored, we feel almost as if such develop- 
ments were guaranteed. A careful observer, a conservative reasoner, a 
skilful writer, Canada possesses in Dr. Dawson a public servant the 
value of whose services can never be over-estimated. His name car- 
ries authority with it on any subject on which he speaks. That a long 
career may be before him is the hope of all, for we all know how much 
that means to the Dominion.” 
Dr. Dawson was a ready and prolific writer and a brilliant conver- 
sationalist. His quiet humour was infectious, and any dinner party 
‘which numbered him among the guests was sure to be a merry one. 
