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may be recorded. But, in turning over the volumes of the Quarterly- 

 Journal, we see how frequent and valuable have been the Colonial 

 communications in past years. The Canadian contributions have 

 been especially numerous and important. Eigsby continued to 

 supply notices of the geology of Canada and the United States for 

 some twenty years after the Journal was started. The papers of 

 Sir William Dawson, which for more than fifty years he continued 

 to present for publication by the Society, range over a wide field of 

 the geology of the Dominion. Especially valuable were his contribu- 

 tions to our knowledge of the flora of the Devonian and Carboni- 

 ferous Periods in North America. His discovery of land-shells, 

 myriapods, and reptiles in the heart of erect Coal-Measure trees 

 supplied a vivid picture of the conditions in which these strata 

 were accumulated. Though the progress of investigation has not 

 confirmed his view of the organic nature of the famous Eozoon,. 

 his discussions on the most ancient crystalline rocks of Canada 

 are full of suggestiveness. Another early Canadian contributor to 

 the Quarterly Journal was Richard Brown, whose descriptions of the 

 erect fossil trees and other features in the Cape Breton coal-field, 

 appeared in successive years from 1847 to 1850. 



The geology of New Zealand has been illustrated in our Journal 

 by communications from Julius von Haast, James Hector, and 

 F. W. Hutton, all of whom have now passed away. But younger 

 men are rising to carry on the geological exploration of that 

 Dominion, and we quite recently published a good paper by 

 Prof. P. Marshall on the geology of Dunedin. 



African geology has been often the subject of communications 

 to the Society since the time of Bain's memoirs already referred to. 

 In the earlier volumes of the Quarterly Journal it was chiefly with 

 Egypt that the papers were concerned. But the opening-up of the 

 Dark Continent, and the extension of our colonies and protectorates 

 over its surface, have led to much exploration and to the rapid 

 increase of our knowledge of large areas of territory. In the 

 southern portion of the continent, as well as in the north, geological 

 surveys have been organized, whereby more detailed information is 

 being continually made available. Among the pioneering papers 

 regarding East and South Africa which the Society has published, 

 reference may be made to Prof. Gregory's series of communications 

 on Mount Kenya and Huwenzori,^ Mr. Walcot Gibson's memoir ^ and 



^ Q. J. 1 (1894) 515 & Ivi (1900) 205, 223. 

 '^ Q. J. xlviii (1892) 404. 



