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natural history specimens, wliicli were forwarded to 

 England and fonnd a home in the British Musenm, 

 as well as at Kew and elsewhere. The British 

 Mnsenm obtained no less than seventeen species of 

 mammals not previously represented in its collections. 



More or less in connection with the above work were . 

 published papers on the " Lignite Formations of the 

 "West," the " Occurrence of Foraminifera, Coccoliths, 

 etc., in the Cretaceous Rocks of Manitoba," on " Some 

 Canadian species of Spongillse," on the " Superficial 

 Geology of the Central Kegion of Xorth America," 

 on the " Locust Invasion of 1874 in Manitoba and the 

 ISForth-west Territories," etc. 



When the work of the Boundary Commission was 

 brought to a close, Dawson received an appointment 

 on the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada and 

 began in that connection the long series of explora- 

 tions of the ^orth-West and British Columbia, which 

 brought such great credit to himself and his country. 

 In 1883, he was made an assistant director of the 

 survey, and later, on the retirement of Dr. Selwyn, 

 in 1895, became head of the department, a position 

 which he occupied until the time of his death on the 

 2nd of March last. Throughout his connection with 

 the survey, his reports were always of a high order, 

 bearing evidence of his striking powers of observation 

 and deduction. Though thoroughly scientific, they 

 always took account of the practical and economic side 

 of geology, and accordingly commanded the attention 

 and confidence of mining capitalists, mine managers 

 and others interested in the development of the 

 mineral resources of the country. AYhen in the field, 

 geology was, of course, the principal object of his 

 investigations, but his wide knowledge of collateral 



