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CLAPP'S CLASSIFICATION OF THE ROCKS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND— Cowfd 



The Palaeozoic section of the Rocky mountains proper was 

 established in outline chiefly by Dawson and McConnell as we have 

 already seen. The past twenty years have seen many advances due 

 to the labours of D. B. Bowling, J. A. Allan, S. E. Slipper, H. W. 

 Shinier, S. J. Schofield, L. D. Burling, R. W. Brock, R. A. Daly, and 

 others working under the authority of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. In addition, we have to record with the greatest apprecia- 

 tion the epoch-making advances in Cambrian stratigraphy and 

 palaeontology made by Dr. C. D. Walcott of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



For the gradual acquisition of stratigraphie facts too much 

 credit can not be given to the various workers in the coal fields through 

 whose labours the detail was gradually worked out. The report of 

 H.W. Shimer in 1910 contains a table of the Palaeozoics of the Lake 

 Minnewanka section not differing greatly from that of Dowling: — ■ 



