of Northwestern Canada. 



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more detailed examination of these rocks, was subsequently 

 made by the writer, of which the results were given in the 

 Keport of Progress for 1878-79; and in 1881, Mr. J. F. 

 Whiteaves published a full account of the fossils collected, 

 and reached the conclusion that the series (which is a very 

 thick one) extended from about the horizon of the Gault 

 upward to approximately that of the Lower Chalk.* The 

 name " Queen Charlotte Islands Group " was proposed for the 

 most fossiliferous member of the section (C), and it was further 

 found that no distinct paleontological line could be^ drawn be- 

 tween this and two underlying members of the section, D and 

 E.f These three lowest subdivisions of the Cretaceous sec- 

 tion of the Queen Charlotte Islands, are here therefoie referred 

 to collectively, for purposes of description, as the Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands formation. 



In reporting upon that portion of the Eocky Mountain 

 range proper, which is included between the parallels of lati- 

 tude of 49° and 51° 30', the writer described the occurrence 

 there of a very massive earlier Cretaceous formation, holding 

 coals, and characterized by a peculiar flora,:}: which was exam- 

 ined and described by Sir J. Wm. Dawson. These Cretaceous 

 rocks it was proposed to name the Kootanie series or forma- 

 tion.! 



* Mesozoic Fossils, vol. i, part 3. \ Traus. Royal Soc. Can., vol. i, sec. 4, p. 85. 



% Annual Report, G-eol. Surv. Can., 1885. 



§By Sir J. Wm. Dawson at the annual meeting of the Royal Soc. Can., May, 

 1885. Science, vol. v, p. 531. Trans. Royal Soc. Can., vol. iii. 



