SUMMAKY EBPOET 



OF THE 



OPERATIONS OF THE GEOLOGICAL CORPS, 



TO 31st DECEMBER, 1879. 



BY 



ALFBED R. C. SELWYN, F.R.S., F.C.S., 



DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURYEYS OF CANADA. 



The field operations of the Geological Survey during the past year 

 have, as usual, extended east and west from ocean to ocean, and also 

 from Manitoba to the western shores of Hudson's Bay. The results, 

 though valuable and interesting, are not in many respects as satisfac- 

 tory or complete as they might be were the efforts of the very limited 

 available staff of explorers more concentrated. 



In the early part of the season much of my own time, and later a 

 portion of Mr. Whiteaves' time, was occupied in connection with the 

 publication of the Eeports for 1811-18, forming a volume of 500 pages, 

 with numerous illustrations, views, maps, sections and woodcuts. This 

 was issued in October, and has since been distributed. The total cost 

 of the paper, printing and lithographic work for the English edition, 

 3,500 copies, has been $5,240.27, and for the French edition, 400 

 copies, $2/278.05. 



The districts in which ffeoloe'ical explorations and surveys have Districts 



001 J examined. 



been made during the past summer are as follows: — 



1. British Columbia. 



2. The North- West Territories. 



3. Quebec. 



i. New Brunswick. 

 5. Nova Scotia. 

 In British Columbia and in the Rocky Mountain region to the east- fj^ff ^! 

 ward, Dr. Gr. M. Dawson worked in conjunction with an explorat6iy|?^^ bi ^ r 



