THE 



CAJ^ADIAN" EECORD 



OF SOIEl^CE. 



VOL. VIII. JULY, 1899. No. 2. 



Studies in the Geology of the Vicinity of 

 Montreal avhich might be undertaken by 

 Members of the Natural History Society. 



By Prof. Fkank D. Adams, Ph.D. 



Although much has been done towards working out the 

 geology of the vicinity of Montreal, still more remains to 

 be done before our knowledge of the subject is at all com- 

 plete. The geological relations, which are in the main 

 simple, nevertheless present such a mass of detail that 

 much time and patient work on the part of many observ- 

 ers will be required before we shall understand fully the 

 structure and the past history of our Island. 



Much of this work is of such a character that it can be 

 easily carried out by members of the Natural History 

 Society, and it is in the hope of enlisting some of our 

 members in the work that it is proposed in the present 

 paper to point out very briefly some of the chief lines of 

 investigation which present themselves. 



The district about the city is underlain chiefly by nearly 

 horizontal strata of Lower Silurian age. These in many 

 places where they are well exposed, contain an abundance 



