Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 



SECTION IV. 

 Series III MAY, 1919 Vol. XIII 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



The Palœo-Geography of Acadia 

 By L. W. Bailey, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



(Read May Meeting, 1919.) 



In addressing you to-day I wish, first of all, to thank you for the 

 honour, which I very highly appreciate, of choosing me as your 

 prssiding officer on the occasion of this, the first meeting of Section IV 

 as at present constituted, and in the performance of its duties must 

 ask you to extend to me the indulgence always so readily granted to 

 those of advanced years. 



This is not the first time that I have occupied the position of 

 President of Section IV, and in doing so now, my thoughts naturally 

 go back to that occasion when the membership of the Section was so 

 different from what it is to-day. At that time, twenty-nine years 

 ago, biology was a word which had hardly come into existence, and 

 the great majority of those who constituted the membership of the 

 section were geologists. Among them let me recall the eminent ser- 

 vices and genial personality of one of the founders and the first Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society, Sir Wm. Dawson; Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, 

 equally eminent for his chemical investigations mainly in connection 

 with geological problems and the development of the mineral resources 

 of Canada; Dr. Geo. F. Matthew, one of the three still surviving 

 charter members of the Section, and whose long continued and suc- 

 cessful study of the rocks and fossils of the Cambrian System was 

 some two years ago recognized by the award to him of the Medal of 

 the Royal Geological Society of Great Britain; Thomas McFarlane, 

 well known among the mining geologists of the Dominion; Dr. 

 Chapman, of Toronto University, a distinguished mineralogist; 

 Dr. Geo. Dawson, one of the great explorers of the Northwest whose 

 chief mining city bears his name, and who also occupied the position of 

 Director of the Geological Survey; Dr. Robert Bell, who did such 

 important work in the exploration of the more remote and at that 

 time wholly unknown regions of Northern Canada; Dr. Frank Adams, 



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