3rd. The elucidation of a large number of fossils of fauna 

 and flora from Manitoba and the Northwisst Territories, as 

 follows : — Fronn the ''Devonian System/' 117 specimens 

 (fauna only). From "Cretaceous System," 179 species 

 (fauna); and from the same 98 species of plants. 



4. The figures for the Cretacean apply only up to 1893. 

 Since that date, Mr, L. M. Lambe, of the Geological Survey, 

 has made extensive investigations of the Cretaceous rocks 

 of the Belly and Red Deer Rivers. These have revealed re- 

 mains of a most interesting character, Reptilian, Crocodilian, 

 Dinosaurian, etc. Last year Mr. Lambe completed Part 1. 

 of a work on the " Palaeozoic Corals " of Canada (Geological 

 Survey, No. 684,) describing many found in our region. The 

 economic results are already very great and invite to a thor- 

 ough prosecution of this work by our western people, as well 

 as by the Dominion Government. While individuals, whose 

 tastes may lie in this direction, can and should pursue the 

 studj^ of the geology of the country, with its various depart- 

 ments, to their own pleasure and the country's good, I believe 

 the time has come when the Provincial Government should 

 make some provision for carr^dng out a thorough system of 

 investigation into the geological formation and mineral re- 

 sources of the country ; the acquirement of all available ma- 

 terial to illustrate the same ; and to have a suitable building, 

 properly maintained, in which can be stored and exhibited 

 all that is needed to illustrate, not only the geology of our 

 Pro\dnce, but its flora and fauna also, as well as the ethnology 

 of our native races so fast being lost for ever. This Society 

 has done something in this line, but its resources and quarters 

 have been far too limited for proper work. 



It is little less than criminal to allow a Province which 

 has reached such a stage as we have in Manitoba, to go on 

 without a museum belonging to the people, in which may be 

 stored, and safely preserved, valuable specimens and litera- 

 ture, bearing on both the natural history and ethnology of 

 this Province. 



Connected with it should be also a branch of the Agricul- 

 tural Department, where could be exhibited everything that 

 would tend to throw Kght upon the agricultural resources of 

 the country, its forest products, etc. 



I venture to say that a sum of not less than $10,000 per 



