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the Director and to Mr. Crook for the care taken of it and the space 

 devoted to it. 



The second of the three contemplated issues of the published 

 series of photographs has been sent to subscribers. The issue 

 consists of eighteen half-plates, four quarter-plates, and four whole 

 plates, and it has been published in the form of raounted_and un- 

 mouated prints and lantern-slides. The negatives were contributed 

 by thirteen photographers, and the descriptions by twenty geologists. 

 To all who have thus contributed to the success of the issue the 

 Committee give their best thanks. 



The process of selection for the third issue is well advanced, and 

 it is hoped that publication will take place within this year. 



The Committee are prepared to publish a second series if there is 

 a demand for it. The number of names at present sent in is only 

 about sixty, and at least twice that number would be required to put 

 the issue on a possible financial basis. The first two issues of the 

 first series show a small profit. The Committee intend to apply 

 one-half to the purposes of the collection, and thus avoid calling 

 upon the Association for any grant for a few years, while they are 

 returning the other half to the subscribers in the form of additional 

 photographs. The subscribers have already received an ' interim 

 dividend ' (rather a larger one than the present profits warrant) in. 

 the form of four whole-plate photographs and additional slides. 



Applications by local societies for the loan of the duplicate 

 collection should be made to the Secretary. Either prints or slides, 

 or both, can be lent, with a descriptive account of the slides. The 

 carriage and the making good of any damage to slides or prints are 

 expenses borne by the borrowing society. 



S, IE "V" X S AA7- S. 



I, — Geological Survey op Canada. Egbert Bell, M.D., Sc.D. 

 (Cantab), LL.D., F.E.S., Acting Director. Annual Eeport 

 (New Series), Vol. XII : Eeports A, B, C, G, I, J, M, 0, E, S. 

 1899. Plates and Maps. (Ottawa : S. E. Dawson, 1902.) 



rnHE volume before us contains ten reports, as lettered above. 

 X Eeport A (224 pp.) was written while the previous volume 

 to the one under review was still in progress, and is the work of 

 the late Director of the Survey, Dr. George M. Dawson ; it is 

 dated January, 1900, and has already been issued as a separate 

 pamphlet. This summary report brings again into prominence the 

 geological and topographical investigations carried on by Mr. E. G. 

 McConnell in the richly auriferous region of the Klondike. 

 A somewhat full preliminary report upon the district is given. 

 The geology of the gold region is said to be complicated ; the rocks 

 are separated into the following divisions, none of which can as 

 yet be exactly correlated with formations previously described in 

 British Columbia, the Yukon District, or Alaska. The order is 

 apparently ascending — 



