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1898. We shall have occasion to refer to Lambe's work later, as the 

 bulk of his publications belong to a subsequent period. For the 

 present we may be permitted to transgress two years beyond 1900 in 

 order to speak briefly of the first work dealing with the dinosaurs of 

 the Cretaceous by a Canadian writer. 



The first detailed reference to dinosaurian remains in Canada is 

 contained in an Appendix by Cope to Dr. G. M. Dawson's report on 

 the 49th Parallel, 1875. Later Cope described in the Proceedings of 

 the American Philosophical Society two skulls of Laelaps incrassalns, 

 one obtained by J. B. Tyrrell in 1884 and the other by T. C. Weston 

 in 1889. Lambe made collecting trips in the valley of the Red Deer 

 river in 1897, 1898, and 1901. The results of his work appear in 

 Volume III, Part II, of Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 



Development Other than in the Geological Survey of Canada, 1870-19C0. 



Stratigraphie investigation during this period was practically 

 confined to the work of Sir Wm. Dawson, Dr. Geo. F. Matthew, and 

 Dr. Bailey, and their efforts were more or less connected with the 

 activities of the Survey. 



The work of Sir Wm. Dawson prior to 1870 we have already 

 referred to: it is significant that his death occurred on Nov. 18, 1899, 

 thus marking the close of the period we are considering. During 

 these thirty years his productions were voluminous and his influence 

 extraordinarily potent. He gave to McGill University a predomin- 

 ance in matters scientific and made" it the training ground for Canadian 

 geologists. It is rcm.arkable that Sir William left no successor at 

 McGill with a leaning to the stratigraphie side of geology and to 

 palaeontology. The reason for this probably lies in the undue accent- 

 uation of Pre-Cambrian Geology and the worship of the pétrographie 

 microscope that marked the close of the century. A striking charac- 

 teristic of Sir William was his life-long opposition to the doctrine of 

 evolution. Several of his papers deal with the subject; after recog- 

 nizing the merit of certain of Darwin's statements, he adds: "All these 

 facts are not the less valuable to the judicious reader that the author 

 has seen fit to string them upon a thread of loose and faulty argument, 

 and to employ them to deck the faded form of the transmutation 

 theory of Lamarck;" and later, "We have seen the able review of Mr. 

 Darwin's work made by Professor Gray and Professor Huxley. Both 

 naturalists dissent from his conclusions as not satisfactorily proved, 

 though neither, in our view, insists sufficiently on the fundamental 

 unsoundness of the argument." 



