Notes and Comments. 197 



In the Summary Rep. of the Geo]. Survey for 1897-98, published 

 previous to this Address, the views of the writer on this subject were 

 sufficiently clearly demonstrated to have been referred to. 



There are marine sediments of true Devonian age in New Brunswick 

 not referred to by Mr.Whiteaves. 



Regarding the Province of Quebec, on p. 16 Mr. Whiteaves quotes 

 Mr. Schuchert as authority' for the statement that the limestones of 

 St. Helen's Island, opposite Montreal, belong to "the Hamilton forma- 

 tion of Ontario and New York, and not to the Lower Helderburg," as 

 held by Sir William Dawson, Prof. Donald, Dr. W. P]. Decks, Dr. Ells 

 and the writer. This statement surely needs correction. 



Numerous localities and areas recognized as Devonian in the Penin- 

 sula of Gaspe and described by Dr. Ells and the writer as Devonian in 

 the Reports of Progress of the Geological Survey for 1880-1-2 and 

 1882-3-4 are not mentioned in connection with the progress and 

 advancement of geological enquiry in this Province. The record of the 

 discovery of a Meso-Devonian fauna similar to the lamelli branchiata 

 fauna of the Hamilton formation of New York State in the sandstones 

 of Grande Carriere Brook, Gaspe, are of sufficient importance to be 

 noted. 



II. Ontario and Keewatin, and III. Manitoba and the N-W. 

 Territories. 



In these districts Mr. Whiteaves has done considerable work, espe- 

 cially in the Hamilton fauna of Ontario and the Meso and Neo-Devonian 

 of Manitoba, Keewatin and the Mackenzie River Basin. His writings 

 are embodied in ]^he Reports of Progress of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada and in " Contributions to Canadian Palceontology." 



In the Rocky Mountains region of Canada only preliminary work 

 has as yet been done. The numerous and interesting collections made 

 by Dr. Dawson, Mr. Tyrrell, Mr. McConnell and others in the Crow's 

 Nest, Kootanie and North Saskatchewan Rivers and Valleys have been 

 examined in part by Mr. Whiteaves, and also in 1883 and 1884 and 

 1886 by the writer. No mention is made of the results obtained in 

 the study of the Devonian fossils of the Kootanie and Crow's Nest 

 Passes some years ago in the Reports of Progress of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada and embodied in Dr. Dawson's " Reconnaissance 

 Map of the Rocky Mountain Region of Canada." 



Prof. Meek's work, the work by Dr. Bell, Mr. McConnell and 

 other explorers in the Mackenzie, Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers 

 are all referred to by Mr. Whiteaves, and in a terse paragraph he sums 

 up the knowledge of the Devonian rocks of the Dominion as a whole. 

 He shows also how our knowledge of the fossils of the Devonian of 

 Nova Scotia is still in its infancy, and how in the Rocky Mountains of 

 Alberta the Carboniferous and the Devonian have not been in every 

 instance distinguishable, and our knowledge of the Devonian fossils of 

 Keewatin and the James's Bay region needs to be amplified. 



