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D. P. Penhallow- — North American Species of Dadoxy Ion. 



Pleistocene Flora of Canada. 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary Plants. 



Concerning the progress of Invertebrate Palaeontology in the 

 universities it may be siaid that the achievement is not great. The 

 writer may be permitted to enlarge, perhaps unduly, on what has 

 been accomplished at Toronto, with which alone he is familiar. The 

 donation of fossils and books made by Sir Edmund Walker about 

 1900 formed the nuclei of museum and library which have grown 

 during the past twenty years to considerable dimensions. The 

 collections now constitute the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology 

 and the library is also separately organized as the Library of Palaeon- 

 tology of the University of Toronto. Materially, therefore, con- 

 siderable progress has to be recorded. Academically the subject of 

 palaeontology has received a degree of recognition far in excess 

 of that which it enjoyed in earlier days. The undergraduate courses 

 have been strengthened and a beginning has been made in post- 

 graduate work. The actual contributions to science consist of a 

 number of papers by the writer and more recently by Miss Helen 

 Stewart and Mr. W. S. Dyer. 



Prior to 1911 stratigraphie geology and palaeontology at Queen's 

 University were merged with other branches of the science, but in that 

 year Dr. C. R. Stauffer was appointed to teach palaeontology; he 

 remained but a short time and was followed successively by Dr. J. 

 Hyde, Dr. K. F. Mather, Dr. Bela Hubbard, Dr. F. J. Alcock, and 

 Dr. Stanley Smith. 



The work of Dr. Stauffer on the Devonian of Ontario is referred 

 to elsewhere. In 1911 Dr. W. A. Bell published an account of the 

 palaeontology of the Black River of Wolfe Island, and later Dr. 

 Jesse Hyde contributed several articles on the Carboniferous of 

 Nova Scotia to the Guide Books of the Xllth International Geological 

 Congress. In 1916 Dr. Mather together with Dr. Kindle published 

 a revision of the Ordovician in the vicinity of Kingston. 



Recently Dr. M. Y. Williams has been placed in charge of palaeon- 

 tology in the University of British Columbia and Mr, P. E. Warren 

 in Alberta. In Manitoba the work is under the direction of Dr. E. 

 Burwash. 



At McGill University, Sir Wm. Dawson was succeeded by Dr. 

 Frank D. Adams as Professor of Geology. Pre-Cambrian and eco- 

 nomic geology as well as pure petrography owe much to the efforts 

 of Dr. Adams; his work on the physical constants of rocks is of great 



