George Mercer Dazvsoii. — B. J. H. 75 
jRocky Mountain Region in Canada." This address was pub- 
lished as a bulletin of the Geological Society of America, and 
will be prized as giving a summing up of his latest views on 
some of the problems connected with the complex geology of 
the west. Many other distinctions, which cannot be enumer- 
ated here, fell to his lot, and he had won for himself the esteem 
and confidence of his fellow-countrymen in all parts of the 
Dominion. Nowhere was he more beloved than in British 
Columbia — the province in which he had done so much of his 
best work, and in which, he sometimes said to the writer, he 
would like to spend his last days. 
After the Toronto meeting of the British Association in 
1897, he accompanied a party of the members on a trip across 
the continent, and all were struck with the warmth of the wel- 
come everywhere accorded to him. "Among the many distin- 
guished visitors," writes the ['/c/or/a Co/o7i/,y^, "by whose pres- 
ence Victoria has been honored during the past few days, none 
holds a higher or more deserved place in the esteem of Can- 
adians than George M. Dawson. In one sense he is the dis- 
coverer of Canada, for the Geological Survey, of which he has 
been the chief, has done more than all other agencies combined 
to make the potentialities of the Dominion known to the world. 
He has been engaged in the work so long that he can look back 
over it with the profound satisfaction which comes from the 
knowledge that his judgment on points of extreme interest 
and value has been justified by events. The development of 
Kootenay, the hydraulic mines of Cariboo, and the gold mines 
in the Yukon are all foretold in the interesting pages of Dr. 
Dawson's earlier reports. Therefore, when we find in the 
voluminous products of his pen, wherein the results of his obser- 
vations are recorded, anticipations of great mineral develop- 
ment in parts of the province that are as yet unexplored, we 
feel almost as if such development were guaranteed. A care- 
ful observer, a conservative reasoner, a skilful writer, Canada 
■possesses in Dr. Dawson a public servant the value of whose 
services can never be over-estimated. His name carries au- 
thority with it on any subject on which he speaks. That a long 
•career may be before him is the hope of all, for we all know 
hew much that means to the Dominion." 
Dr. Dawson was a ready and prolific writer and a brilliant 
