Mr. A. McCharles did some collecting in fossils some 

 years ago ; and the present respected Secretary of the Board 

 of Trade, Mr. C. N, Bell, in his paper on "Our jSTorthem 

 Waters," has given some interesting information on the 

 minerals, etc., of the Hudson Bay regions. 



The most active worker, however, has been our esteemed 

 member and one of the founders, of this Society, Dr. G. 

 Bryce, who has done so much to keep this Society alive and 

 up to its work. Apart from his historical researches, the 

 Professor has done much in Geology and jVIineralogy. 



Since 1884 he has investigated the Huronian Rocks and 

 mineral deposits of the Lake of the Woods, examined the 

 valley of the Red River with Mr. Upham ; the coal deposits 

 of Souris and Estevan ; the Tertiary sandstone of the Souris 

 A^alley ; the Cambro-Silurian formation of the Lower Red 

 River and Stony Mountain, and also at Banff. 



ISTotes of this work have appeared in the following papers 

 of this Society : — "Surface Geology of Manitoba," "Older 

 Geology of Red River Valley," and "The Lake of the 

 Woods," and a paj>er on the "Tertiary Sandstone of the 

 Souris," in the Dominion Monthly. Professor Kenrick, of 

 St. John's College, in his capacity as analyst and assay er, has 

 given great attention to our minerals. A list of minerals 

 treated by him appears in the appendix. Professor Laird has, 

 we believe, done much in the way of study in palaeontology, 

 etc., and we should welcome a paper from him on this, or any 

 <?ther branch. 



This seems a fitting place to mention the part being taken 

 by our University, and the public schools, in promoting the 

 •study of this and other branches of iSTatural Science ; which 

 <'annot fail to have an influence on the future of these sub- 

 jects. Besides Chemistry and Physics, with which I am not 

 dealing in this paper, the subjects taken up are : — ^Geology, 

 Paheontology and Mineralogy, Zoology, and Botany (Struc- 

 tural and Systematic.) 



The results of all this work may be thus briefly enumer- 

 ated : — 



1st. A general idea of the conformation and strata of the 

 whole country from Lake of the Woods to the Yukon River. 



2nd. The determination of large areas of coal, iron, gold 

 and other precious minerals. 



