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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



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BOWLING S TABLE OF MANITOBA PALAEOZOICS 



Stony Mountain 

 Utica 



(Upper Mottled limestone 

 Cat Head limestone 

 Lower Mottled limestone 



Black River (?) Winnipeg sandstones and shales 



Tyrrell and Dowling at a later date worked in northern Saskat- 

 chewan and on the Athabaska extending northward the classification 

 now established. Towards the close of our period McConnell was 

 on the Mackenzie, Yukon, Peace, and Liard rivers and Great Slave 

 lake. He recognized Cambro-Silurian on the Liard and Mackenzie, 

 also Devonian with many fossils, recorded Triassic on the Liard 

 and the occurrence of Cretaceous and Tertiary strata at a number 

 of points. A very instructive table accompanies McConnell's report; 

 it is reproduced in full below: — • 



MCCONNELL's TABLE OF FORMATIONS ON THE ATHABASKA 



AND PEACE RIVERS 



The CordiUeran Region 



In our account of the period prior to 1870 scarcely any mention 

 was made of stratigraphie work in British Columbia and very little 

 seems to have been done. We find, however, that a certain amount 

 of investigation htid been carried on by Bauerman, Hector, Forbes, 

 and Robert Brown. In 1871 Dr. Selwyn, accompanied by James 

 Richardson, was in the Pacific province and gave the following first 

 stratigraphie column: — ■ 



