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"black shales and flaggy cream- weathering limestone," three miles 

 below Henry House. 



Eocks of undoubted Cambrian age were met with on the north- 

 east side of the valley between Tete Jaune Cache and Canoe Kiver. 

 "The squeezed conglomerate of the lower part of the series may 

 be without much hesitation assigned to the horizon of the Bow 

 Eiver Series [Lower Cambrian'], while the overlying schists and 

 argillites probably belong to the same series, but may include, 

 towards the top, beds of the upper division of the Cambrian or 

 Castle Mountain group." No granite or other plutonic rocks were 

 met with in the vicinity of the route traversed. 



A great series of mica-schists were seen on the south-west side of 

 the valley opposite Tete Jaune Cache, on Mica Mountain. The 

 whole series, though differing somewhat from the Shuswap Series 

 of the southern interior of British Columbia, shows the main 

 characteristics of that series, and may be classed as such. The 

 age of this series, as given by Dr. Dawson, is Arclicean. The line 

 of contact between these rocks and those of Cambrian age on the 

 opposite side of the valley is hidden by superficial deposits. 



The glaciation of the mountainous part of the region surveyed is 

 briefly described, and evidence is found for the statement that the 

 valley of the Athabasca contained a large glacier flowing north- 

 ward down the stream. After the glacier had disappeared the 

 valley was occupied by a large lake standing at a level of 550 to 

 600 feet above that of Jasper Lake, or 3,260 feet above sea-level. 

 A long, distinct terrace, composed of silt and sand on the west side 

 of Jasper Lake, marks this level. 



The report concludes with a brief account of the distribution of 

 the principal trees and of the game, large and small. 



2. — On some Additional or Impeefectly Understood Fossils 

 FROM THE Cretaceous Eocks of the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, with a Eevised List of the Species from these 

 Eocks. By J. F. Whiteaves, LL.D., F.G.S., F.E.C.S. Mesozoic 

 Fossils, Vol. I, Part IV, pp. 263-307, pis. xxxiii to xlix. 

 (Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, November, 1900.) 



AS explained in the Prefatory Note by the Director, Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, the present memoir is an illustrated description of 

 two collections of fossils from the Cretaceous rocks of the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands, made by Dr. C. F. Newcombe, of Victoria, British 

 Columbia, in 1895 and 1897. It contains also a revision of the 

 nomenclature of some of the fossils previously collected from the 

 same rocks by Mr. James Eichardson in 1872 and Dr. G. M. Dawson 

 in 1878. A brief summary of its contents will suffice, and this may 

 be taken from Dr. Whiteaves' prefatory remarks. The revised list 

 of species at the end of the memoir shows that 89 species of marine 

 invertebrates are now known from the Lower Shales of the coal- 

 bearing rocks of the Cretaceous system in the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. Of these one is a Coral [Astroccenia) ,ihxQQ are Brachiopods; 



