PROCEEDINGS FOR 1903 XLIII 



EEPOET OF SECTION" IV. 



Section IV. lias the honour to report that five highly interesting 

 sessions have been held. The maximum attendance was thirteen mem- 

 bers, with a number of visitors from other sections. Dr. A. E. Barlow 

 of the Geological Survey, was recommended by the section for elec- 

 tion to fill a vacancy in this section. Fifteen papers by members of 

 the section were read by their authors either in extenso, in part or by 

 title, whilst two papers were submitted by gentlemen not members 

 of the Society — making in all seventeen papers before the section. 



A Committee was appointed to act in connection, with the pro- 

 posed visit of the International Geological Congress to Canada in 1906. 



A resolution was adopted, expressive of the desirability of a draft 

 report of the Council being sent to the members of the Society in 

 advance of the annual meeting. 



The section is mianimously of the opinion that the Government 

 should be further urged to provide proper building accommodation 

 for the Geological Survey Department. This matter to be referred 

 to the general meeting of the Society for its consideration. 



The election of otficers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: — 



For President— Dr. G. U. Hay. 



For Vice-President — Prof. Fowler. 



For Secretary — Mr. Lawrence Lambe. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Lawrence Lambe, 

 Secretary pro tern. 



Report op the SuB-CoMiiiTTEE ox the No-Menclature of 

 Geological Formations in Canada. 



Ottawa, May 16th, 1903. 

 A meeting of the Ottawa members of this Sub-Committee was held 

 in March last, at which the subject was fully discussed. A circular, 

 asking for comments on the scheme of Geological nomenclature, etc., 

 submitted by Dr. Selwyn, in 1S81, to the Bologna Congress, and pub- 

 lished in the Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada 

 for 1880-81-82, was drawn up and sent to each of the specialists of the 

 Geological Survey staff. The answers to this circular have not yet 

 been fully considered, but, on the whole, they would seem to show that 

 there is a general consensus of opinion that the time has come when Dr. 

 Selwyn's scheme could be advantageously modified in accordance with 

 the terminology adopted by the International Congress of Geologists. 



