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across country from the main line was made easy and instructive by the courtesy of 
citizens of Calgary, and the visitors were hospitably entertained at the ranch by 
Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle, and given opportunity to study the pedigree stock and the 
working of the farm.’ On the return journey the rapid emergence of a steep atmo- 
spheric depression from the mountain region into the rolling country was accompanied 
with heavy local hailstorms. 
Friday, August 29.—The well-known Rocky Mountuin resort of BANFF 
(3414 m., 4537 ft.) was visited in the morning. Here, as recounted 
above, the botanical party which had left the main excursion at Edmonton 
rejoined. From Banff, the trains left the mountain region, the weather 
breaking as they did so. 
Cateary, Alta. (3496 m., 3438 ft.), was reached in the afternoon, 
the visitors being received by the Mayor and other leading citizens, 
including a reception committee of the Calgary Branch of the Engineering 
Institute of Canada. The Imperial Oil refineries, Calgary Steam Power 
plant, C. P. railway shops and irrigation dam, etc., were shown. 
Saturday, August 30.—At Recina, the capital of Saskatchewan 
(3957 m., 1895 ft.), three hours were spent at midday. The visitors 
were entertained at a civic luncheon, and addresses were given by Prof. 
D’Arcy W. Thompson, Sir Thomas H. Holland, and Dr. Marion 
Newbigin. 
The depression already mentioned was now travelling abreast of the 
trains, and giving rise to dust-storms or heavy showers. 
Sunday, August 31.—A stop was made at Kenora, Ont. (4339 m., 
1090 ft.), on the Lake of the Woods. The party was received by leading 
citizens, and excursions on the lake were arranged, the weather fortu- 
nately improving. A welcome-card from the Rev. E. Diamond, rector of 
St. Alban’s Anglican pro-cathedral, was especially appreciated. 
A geological party proceeded in two launches through the Devil’s Gap to the island 
occupied by the M.L.A. Camp. Here they examined numerous exposures of the 
rocks of the Keewatin Group, of which apparently the island is mainly composed, 
and noted some rather sheared amygdaloidal lavas and some basic lavas and tufts 
with occasionally more acid types. In particular at one point a conspicuously banded 
rock had resulted from the injection of acid material into the basic. Later the party 
proceeded to Sultana Island. The slate and cherty beds of the Keewatin were first 
examined, and then the hill was climbed in order to observe the contact of the granite 
with the Keewatin rocks. Pillow structure was still discernible in the Keewatin 
lavas, which in places near the contact were brecciated and injected by these fibres 
of granitic magma. Next, the site of a gold-mine, no longer worked, was visited. 
According to Dr. Bruce (the leader of the party) the granite is only a granite at its 
margin, and in the interior has given rise by differentiation to a felspar pophyry 
rock rich in felspar phenocrysts. The vein worked lies at this locality along a well- 
marked belt of shearing at the junction of the felspar pophyry with the granite, 
and some members of the Section were disposed to consider these two rocks as separate 
intrusions rather than differentiates of the same rock mass. Some later dykes termed 
lamprophyres were also examined. 
The zoologists had also a special launch expedition to one of the islands, in the 
course of which tow-nettings were made (the plankton being abundant) as well as 
collections on the shore. Other members visited an Indian school on the lake, where, 
under a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, girls from about six to sixteen years 
of age are educated. Some speak both English and French, and the native speech 
is not used during term-time. 
Monday, September 1.—A stop was made at the ‘ twin cities’ of Fort 
Witi1am (4632 m., 616 ft.) and Porr Arruur, Ont., at the head of 
navigation on Lake Superior. Members inspected the harbour and the 
huge elevators in which grain from the western fields is collected, in transit 
