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value to any geologist whatever his field of endeavour may be. Had 

 we included the Pre-Cambrian in our review, Dr. Adams' re-study of 

 the Laurentian and his work, together with that of Dr. A. E. Barlow, 

 in the Haliburton district, must have received particular mention. 

 Dr. Adams and his associates, Dr. Bancroft, Dr. Coker, and Professor 

 McKergow, have also devoted themselves to studies in experimental 

 geology, but stratigraphy in the narrower sense and pure palaeon- 

 tology have not received a due proportion of the efforts of the McGill 

 staff. 



Dr. Osborne resigned as Honorary Vertebrate Palaeontologist 

 to the Survey in 1902 and Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe was appointed 

 Vertebrate Palaeontologist. Between this time and his death in 

 1919 Lambe did much for the cause of vertebrate palaeontology in 

 Canada. His numerous descriptions of new genera and species of 

 dinosaurs and turtles from the Cretaceous of the west, his work on 

 the fishes of the Albert shale, and on fish from the Palaeozoic of the 

 Rockies; and his dissertations on certain mammalian teeth, etc., 

 all attest his application to the subject and the volume of his pro- 

 ductions. 



Vertebrate palaeontology in Canada may also claim the work 

 of Mr. Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 who collected in Alberta and published many important contributions 

 to Canadian vertebrate palaeontology in the bulletins of his museum. 



In 1918 the University of Toronto sent an expedition to collect 

 vertebrate remains in the Cretaceous of Alberta and has followed 

 this first attempt by an expedition in each subsequent year. The 

 material results to date are three skeletons mounted and a large 

 collection awaiting the work of the preparator. Scientifically a new 

 species of a known genus and an entirely new genus have been 

 described. 



During the summer of 1921 the University of Alberta entered 

 the field of vertebrate palaeçntology in sending Mr. Geo. Sternberg 

 to collect in the classic locality on the Red Deer river. Alberta. 



Vertebrate palaeontology depends for its success as much on 

 the work of the skilled preparator as on the efforts of the scientist. 

 Great credit is due to Mr. C. H. Sternberg and his three sons, who 

 have mounted practically all the Canadian material in our museums. 



In conclusion, it is necessary to offer some apology for the length 

 of this address : it is much too long for the purpose intended but it is 

 all too short to do justice to the subject itself. The. sins of omission 

 must be pardoned in view of the complexity and local character of 

 the development and the large number of names involved. 



