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irom 1863-68 ; Naturalist and Medical Officer on the Goverment 

 Expeditions to Hudson Bay, 1884 and 1885 ; Royal Commis- 

 sioner on the Mineral Resources of Ontario, in 1888. He is 

 distinguished for his services in Canadian geology, having 

 worked over large sections of the Dominion east of the Rocky 

 Mountains ; has made extensive researches among the Lauren- 

 tian and Huronian rocks, and also in reference to glacial 

 phenomena ; has added materially to our knowledge of the 

 zoology and botany (more especially of the forestry) of Canada. 

 His writings include upwards of twenty official reports, some ac- 

 companied by maps, of geological surveys between 1857 and 1896, 

 giving the results of explorations on both sides ot Hudson Bay 

 and Straits, along the principal waters between the Upper 

 Great Lakes and James's Bay, and of those between the Winni- 

 peg Basin and Hudson Bay ; the fir-^t survey of Lake Nipigon, 

 geological surveys of the Canadian shores of Lakes Ontario, 

 Erie, Huron and Superior, and in the North-west Territories 

 and the Athabasca region, the Thunder Bay and Sudbury min- 

 ing districts, the Gaspe peninsula, and in other parts of the 

 extensive regions of Canada. These reports cover about 

 one thousand pages royal octavo. Among many ad- 

 ditional publications may be mentioned : " The Causes of the 

 Fertility of the Land in the Canadian North- West Territories," 

 ■' The Petroleum Field of Ontario," "The Huronian System in 

 Canada," " Glacial Phenomena in Canada," "The Geology of 

 Ontario with Special Reference to Economic Minerals," "The 

 Laurentian and Huronian Systems north of Lake Huron," 

 " The Origin of Gneiss," " The Forests of Canada," " Forest 

 Fires in Northern Canada," " The Labrador Peninsula," " Recent 

 Explorations South of Hudson Bay," " The Geographical Dis- 

 tribution of Forest Trees in Canada." 



Dr. R. Bell's supplementar}/ certificate (1897; states that 

 he has been connected with the Geological Survey of 

 Canady for forty years, and up to February 1897, has published 

 135 scientific papers, reports, &c,, besides abstracts of 42 others 

 read by the author. The titles of most of these are published 

 in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 18,94. 



His certificate was signed by sixteen Fellows from personal 

 knowledge, among them being Sir Archibald Geikie, Prof. 

 Crum-Brown, Sir William Turner, Prof. Bonney, Lord Kelvin, 

 Sir William Dawson and Sir Frederick Abel. 



