10 The American Geologist. 
January, 1903. 
to the junction of the Peace and Smoky rivers. In 1876-77 
(Report of Progress for those years) "Notes on the Quebec 
Group" appear, a subject to which he gave considerable at- 
tention, and in which l,e did much to separate from that series 
those rock formations which were of volcanic origin. In the 
report of 1877-78 pp. 1-15, further notes are given "On the 
stratigraphy of the Quebec Grou]>" (of Logan) and older 
crystalline rocks of Canada. This is said to be one of the best 
attempts of systematic classification of the most ancient and 
difificult rock masses ever made. The following year's report 
(1878-79) Selwyn's work in the Eastern Townships and other 
portions of Quebec is given, and a "Note on the origin of gran- 
ite treated as metamorphosed strata, not intrusions" occurs in 
the Report of Progress for 1879-80, pp. 5-6. The same report 
contains also an account of boring operations in the Souris 
River valley of the Manitoba (pp. i-iiA). On pp. 51-55A the 
fossil plants collected by Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn at Roche Percee 
and determined by Sir J. W. Dawson are recorded and de- 
scribed. His work on the Lake Superior region during the 
year 1882 is embodied in the report for 1880-82, pp. 16-17, to- 
gether with a report on an exploration in Manitoba during the 
same year on the White Mud and Souris rivers. 
"On the Geological nomenclature and colouring and no- 
tations of maps" forms the topic of an important contribution 
from his pen, pp. 47-51 of the "Report of Progress," for 1888, 
followed by additional notes on the geology of the southeast- 
ern portion of Quebec, pp. 1-7A; and followed later in the re- 
port by a note on the accuracy of the plan of the mouth of the 
Moose river surveyed by R. Bell in 1883-84, besides a sum- 
mary of the work of Selwyn during 1883 on lake Superior, in 
the Souris Coal district, in Assiniboia and in the Cascade Coal 
basin of British Columbia. 
Selwyn leaves behind him a career full of usefulness to the 
Empire. His work was truly of an imperial nature, for it 
extended not only into various portions of Great Britain but 
also to the distant colonies of the mother country, to the "Isl- 
and Continent" of Australia and to the Dominion of Canada, 
for nearly eight years (1845-52) he laboured diligentl}' in 
England and Wales, for seventeen years (1852-1869) he car- 
ried on geological investigations in \"ictoria, and spent twenty- 
