8 The American Geologist. January. 1903. 
gists : Sir Wm. E. Logan, Edward Hartley, T. Sterry Hunt, 
Robert Bell, James Ricli^ardson, Charles Robb, and H. G. 
Vennor. Besides the above, Robert Barlow, Esquire, and his 
son Scott Barlow, had charge of the topographical and carto- 
graphical part of the survey, whilst Elkanah Billings was pa- 
laeontologist, with Messrs. Horace Smith and Thomas C. Wes- 
ton as assistants, one an artist, the other in charge of museum 
work etc. 
When Selwyn became director of the Geological Survey of 
Canada and deputy head of the same, the confederation of 
some of the British American provinces had only just been ef- 
fected, and accordingly there was now open a much wider 
field of investigation than formerly. As one after another the 
different provinces and districts became part and parcel of the 
Dominion of Canada the work increased accordingly, and 
to such an extent that the staff of geologists and assistants had 
to be materially increased ; and men had to be trained to pursue 
the good work of the old regime. 
This period was one of great activity in the Canadian sur- 
vey. The first copies of Logan's large "Map of the Geology 
of Canada and adjacent parts of the United States" prepared 
for the engraver by Robert Barlow, were received during the 
first month of Selw}-n's administration from Edward Stan- 
ford, the publisher. Charing Cross, London. 
As an instance of the remarkable activity and energy dis- 
played by the second director of the Geological Survey of Can- 
ada at the outset of his career in Canada, it may be remarked 
that he not only proposed to the Hon. Joseph Howe the various 
points noted above but also presented the annual "Summary" 
report of the geological investigation made by the staff the 
previous year. 
He further impressed upon the government the advisability 
of placing a special appropriation in the estimates of the 
year for the distribution of Logan's large map just received, 
submitting at the same time a list of public and educational 
institutions, libraries, etc., where the said map would do a 
great deal of good to Canada. 
In 1870 he investigated the gold-fields of Nova Scotia 
and prepared an important report giving the result of his work 
there. (See "Report of Progress, Geol. Surv. Canada, 1870- 
71," pp. 352-82, Ottawa, 1870.) 
