Sketch of Dr. A. R. C. Seht'yn. — Ami. 7 
Jr., and other geologists. Besides an extensive series of geo- 
logically coloured maps of Victoria, and official reports, Sel- 
wyn prepared the following reports and papers bearing more 
especially upon the economic resources of Australasia : 
"On the Geology and Mineralogy of Mount Alexander and the ad- 
jacent country lying between the rivers Loddon and Campaspe.'' Quart. 
Jour. Geol. Soc, J'ol. X, pp. 298-303. (1834), London. 
'■Report on the Geological Relations of some of the Coal seams of 
Van Diemen's Land, their probable extent, and relative economic 
value." fan Diemen's Land Royal Society Papers, III, pp. M6-141, 
18 55- 18 59. 
"On the Geology of the Goldfields of Victoria." Quart. Jou>'. 
Geol. Soc., Vol. XI]\ pp. 533-3S, London, 1858. and Geologist, Vol. L 
pp. 163-4. 1858. 
"Notes on the Geology of Victoria." Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, Vol. 
XVI. pp. 145-50. i860. 
Geological Notes of a journey in Australia from Cape Jervis to 
Mt. Serle," Proe. Gcogr. Soc. Vol. V, pp. 242-44. 1861. 
"Report on the Auriferous Drifts and Quartz-reefs of Victoria : 
observations as to the probable 'age of the Lower Gold Drifts," Publish- 
ed in Victoria, Australia, May 4th, 1866. Reprinted in the Geological 
Magazine, Vol. Ill, pp. 457-459. London, Eng., 1866. 
While in Victoria he added much to the knowledge of the 
gold-bearing rocks of that colony and also aided in tracing 
the relation of the Miocene Tertiary strata so rich in Eocene 
Mollusca. 
Among the interesting collections made by Dr. Selwyn in 
Victoria may be mentioned that now deposited in the museum 
of the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, con- 
sisting of Tertiary shells from the Murray river. He was con- 
tinuously engaged as director of the Geological Survey of 
Victoria from 1852 to 1869, a period of nearly seventeen years, 
and he resigned when the legislature refused to vote the ne- 
cessary funds to carry on the work. 
Sehvyiis Work in Canada. 
It was on the first of December, 1869, that Selwyn took 
charge of the Geological Survey of Canada, which had from 
its inception in 1842 been carried on by Sir W. E. Logan. 
Selwyn had arrived in Canada in October of the same year; 
and vigorously set himself to the task of studying and revis- 
ing the reports that had been received from the various assist- 
ants who included the followinc: well-known Canadian "-eolo- 
