JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 15 
OPENING ADDRESS. 
Geological Sectzon for Sesston 1899-1900. 
BY COL. Ca C. GRAN. 
Owing to the state of our President’s health, who unfor- 
tunately is unable now to take an active part in each year’s fossil 
collecting expeditions, as well as the other employments which 
prevent members of the section from adding many specimens to 
the museum cases, as the only idle member of the community 
available, the duty devolves on the writer of laying the result 
of what has recently been obtained before you. With regard to 
the field geology of the district, there is little to communicate. 
We are all aware of the slow elevation or depression of the 
Earth’s crust which has taken place recently at various sea-coasts. 
It was only within the last quarter of the century that similar 
-changes were pointed to as occurring in our lake regions now 
by Professors Gilbert, Spencer and others. Ina paper by the 
former, the writer lately received, entitled ‘‘ Recent Earth 
Movements in the Great Lake Region,” he credits Mr. Stuntz, 
land surveyor of Wisconsin, with being the first to notice these 
oscillations in or about Lake Superior. But the Earth move- 
ment or tilting up of its crust referred to in Professor Gilbert’s 
work, and which Dr. Spencer, F.G.S., asserts is even now going 
on, does not appear to be confined to that portion of the conti- 
nent, and the writer recollects, that Dr. Bell, of the Canadian or 
Dominion Geological Survey, brought forward several years 
ago very strong proof that considerable changes had recently 
taken place in or about the Hudson Bay District; and perhaps 
some of the members may not have forgotten the writer also 
stated on his return from Anticosti, that he had ascertained the 
sea-bed was undoubtedly rising at the principal station there, 
“* English Bay,” and probably along the south shore of the island. 
