The work at most of these points is done voluntarily, by 

 persons interested in this branch of science ; who deserve the 

 thanks of the country for very valuable services rendered. 



The reports from the nine telegraph stations are used in 

 Toronto for use in the daily forecasts, which, while useful 

 here, are of special value to mariners on sea and lake, in other 

 parts of the Dominion. 



The records from all stations are tabulated and printed 

 monthly, and are most interesting to all students of the cli- 

 matic conditions of the country. 



GEOLOGY. 



I have already said something about the work of the 

 Geological Survey The staff has done a splendid ser- 

 vice to the country ; whether in field work, which has in- 

 volved great hardship, and often perilous journeys, in face of 

 all kinds of difficulties ; or in the research involved in the 

 study of collections and the preparation of admirable reports. 

 The present Directors — Dr, G. M. Dawson, Mr. Whiteaves 

 (in Palaeontology), Mr. Lambe, and Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, have 

 been prolific writers. Some of their works will appear in the 

 list to be given. 



We must here pay a special tribute to the late Sir William 

 Dawson, a member of this Society, whose grand personality 

 and magnificent work in almost every branch of Natural 

 Science, has made his name almost a household word in Can- 

 ada. In common with the rest of the Dominion, the West 

 has benefitted greatly by his labours and researches in the 

 fields of Geology and Palaeontology ; and we do well to 

 honour his memory, and place on record, as we have done, 

 our keen sense of the loss the whole country has sustained in 

 his death. 



Among local workers in Geology since 1880 have- been 

 the late Professor J. H. Panton, for a time engaged in educa- 

 tional work in this city. He made a careful study of the 

 Cambro-Silurian limestone of Stony Mountain, and the Cre- 

 tacean rocks near Medicine Hat. Fossil collections were 

 made from both these deposits. He published a very inter- 

 esting paper, read before this Society (Trans. No. 3), on 

 "Gleanings from the Geology of the Red River Valley." 



