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stratigrapbical rocks exhibited in the Canadian Court on each 

 occasion. 



Of his miscellaneous writings there are not many to record at this 

 time, but the following may be noted : — 



7. "On tlie Discovery of Keptiliau Footprints in Nova Scotia": Geol. Mag., 



Vol. IX (1872), pp. 250, 251. 



8. " Notes on a Journey througli the North-West Territory, from Manitoba to 



Eocky Mountain House" (1874) : Canadian Naturalist, vol. vii (1875). 



9. " The Stratigraphy of the Quebec Group and the older Crystalline Eocks of 



Canada" (1879) : Canadian Naturalist, vol. ix (1881), pp. 17-31. 



In 1871 Mr. Selwyn was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society of London, and in 1874 a Fellow of the Eoyal Society. 



In 1876 he was awarded the " Murchison Medal " by the Council 

 of the Geological Society of London — " in recognition of his 



services to Silurian geology As one of the officers 



of the Geological Survey of this country, engaged in unravelling the 

 intricate Lower Silurian rocks of North Wales with their associated 

 volcanic deposits ; as afterwards in charge of the Geological Survey 

 of Victoria, mapping its Silurian strata, its gold-bearing rocks and 

 auriferous gravels of different ages, and tracing the relations of the 

 latter to the Miocene beds of the colony and to the older rocks ; as 

 subsequently the successor of Sir William Logan in the direction 

 of the Geological Survey in our North American territories from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, the labours of Mr. Selwyn have 

 extended over an enormous field. How successfully he has worked 

 in it, the numerous and excellent maps and sections executed under 

 his superintendence, and his various reports and papers, fully testify. 



" There is something peculiarly appropriate in the Medal founded 

 b}' Sir Eoderick Murchison being given to one whose labours, like 

 his own, have lain so much among Silurian and Paleeozoic rocks, 

 among goldfields, and in the direction of geological surveys. While 

 it marks [said the President] our appreciation of Mr. Selwyn's 

 services to Geology, it will, I trust, not be less welcome to hiui as 

 a proof that, though absent, he is not forgotten at home." ^ 



In the course of his fifty years' work as a geologist, Mr. Selwyn 

 has been spontaneously elected to more than fourteen scientific 

 societies in various parts of the world, including the K.-k. 

 Geologischen Eeichsanstalt Wien. He was created C.M.G. in 1886. 



It would be impossible in such a notice as this to do full justice 

 to so eminent and illustrious a geologist, but we trust that what has 

 here been so imperfectly written may serve to " keep his memory 

 green " in the recollection of some of those friends who, like the 

 writer, can recall Mr. Selwyn, not only by means of his written 

 memoirs, but by a personal knowledge of the man and his worth.^ 



H. W. 



1 See President's speech, Feb. 18, 1876 : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. (Pro- 

 ceedings), vol. xxxii, p. 49. 



- The writer is much indebted to Sir A. Geikie's "Life of Eamsay " ; to his friend 

 J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S., for various references ; and to G. Pringle Hughes, Esq., 

 J. P., Middleton Hall, Wooler, Northumberland, for the photograph here reproduced, 

 and for valuable information, a part of which is embodied in this notice. 



