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however, be hoped that should deep sea deposits of 

 Huronian age be (Uscovered, or the Grenvilliaii rocks in a 

 less altered state, additional species may be found ; nor is 

 it impossible that there may be additional formations 

 filling the probable gaps in time between the Lower 

 Laurentian and the Grenvillian, or between it and the 

 Huronian, or between the latter and the Etcheminian. 

 In any case there is ample scope for the labor of those 

 who have the necessary skill and patience. It was added 

 that important detailed explorations of the Laurentian 

 and Huronian, supplementary to those of Logan, are now 

 in progress, under Dr. Dawson, Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada ; more especially by Dr. Ells, Dr. Adams 

 and Mr. Barlow, and may be expected to yield important 

 results. 



In concluding, the author insisted on the duty of 

 palaeontologists to give more attention to the Pre- 

 Cambrian rocks, in the hope of discovering connecting 

 links with the Cambrian, and of hnding the oceanic 

 members of the Huronian, and less metamorphosed 

 equivalents of the Upper Laurentian, and so of reaching 

 backward to the actual beginning of life on our planet, 

 should this prove to be attainable. At the close of 

 the paper a number of micro-photographs, showing the 

 forms and structures of Eozoon and other ancient remains, 

 supposed to be organic, were projected on the screen. 



The President said that they were all delighted to have 

 the subject presented in this way. The dawn of life 

 on the globe was, perhaps, the most fascinating of all 

 subjects with which the geologist had to deal. The 

 subject of Eozoon Canadense was intimately associated 

 with the name of Sir William Dawson. 



Dr. Hicks said no one else could possibly have given 

 such an exposition of Eozoon. 



