* IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. /M/y %^ 1.0 I.I i.25 I^IM 115 |50 '"'^■' - US, i 10 iir 1.8 14 11 1.6 V2 ^l 'C'l -?^ . <$> /^ % y Oi%' '/ r Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 8721503 f\ iV Cv ■■^^ 1^ ^untry \iist in its dimensions, l)ul ot which the populalivMi is as yet comparatively small. If, tliercl'ore, wo h.ive jjooil reason to bolievi' that the natural resources ol our territory are in any respect commensurate with its area, we niav look forward with confidence to a (,'re,nt future. But in virJer that this may Iv realized properly and so.m, we must devote ourselves to the exploration auil definition i>f i">ur latent wealth, aui.1 to the solution of the priihlems whicti inevitahlv arise in the course- t»f its utili}!atii>n under circumstances which are often more ov less entirely novel. For this purpose we .are pro- vided it the present day with methods, .appliances .and an amount of accumul.ited knowledfic not previously thoiig"ht of, hut which we must be prepared to enlist in our service if e^ur purpose is to be achieved. -Cicorjje M. n.awson, CM G., etc., Director CleoloKical Surve> of Canada. Presidenti.al Address. Ko\,il Society of Can.ida, iSck, It i.s' my iiitt'iititiii to conline my aildrcss to the subject of iiiilioiiiil .survey.'^ ami museum.-;. If a private iudivitlual were to become the owiie.' i>f five or ten tliou.sauti acres of diversitied virf:;in territory he woidd, j)re.siim;uj;' tiiat he was wliat we call a |)ractical person, make or have made a carefid i^xamination of his estate in order to know its resources uml )iossil>ilities. He would keenly examine the \arious .soils as to their suital)ility for aj^riculture, tiu- timber as to its immediate or prospective value, the clays and sedimentary rocks as to po.ssibilities of t)uildino; materials; or if his estate lay in a mineral area lu would look eagerly Ibr an Eldorado. Ho would consider the lakes and streams and tlie water powers and watersheds of his property, and the nature of the drainajre or the necessity of artificial draitian'. . lii a word, he would take stock oi' ids i)Ui'chase Jusl as a merchant or uumufaclurer would of his goods. Now, a new country is but an enlarfremeut of tid.s diver.sifieil tive or ten tliousand acres, and the peoph> of a new country arc bnt an eulargement of this practical individual. If they are is able to recognize tlieir interest in the national protilem as he is in the individual i)robhMn. they will w i.-.h to know of what th(.' national ilomain consists, what are its resources and its future i)ossibilities. Clearly, they will vish to know what can in any i)arti»;ulai' part of the domain l)e first and most profitably marketed or |)nt to use in manufacture as raw material. Just as clearly tiiey will want to know what raw material they posse.ss wlucli although not marketable now will eventually help to build n\> the national wealth. Also if they are reasonably intelligeat they will desire to Icnow the extent of the so-called waste places which have apparently no present or prospective u.se or value measured by money. I need not tell you that at this moment I cannot stoj) to discus.^ the enormous value to man of the waste places of mother eartli. so dear to tl artist, the sportsman, the naturalist, ami the truly intelligent man of any class. I have purpo.sely begun by making a bald statement in defence of national surveys which will be admitted by all because it is based on economic grounds which are recognized l>v all, and it will be a surprise to many larticidar audience will ((Uestion this la.-^t statenu'iit. but wt> should always keep before us the fact that in a new counti-y tiie majority of the people Imve theii' minds tilled with material considerations alone. They or their parents have begun life, if not literally seeking their bread, still having as the main ]tiU"pose the improve- ment of the material circumstances of tlieir lives, and so it happens that they are deaf to any but what tiu'y deem practical argunuMits. The j)oliticians relle('t the people an(l it is therelore much more to neglect the higher c(m- sidiM'ations of national life when there is no longer the excuse of national povei'ty. I should like this evening to con.sider with you what national and provincial surveys should accomplish, and what national and provincial museuins .should contain, and whether there is any longer a shadow of excuse fo'- Canadii jiersistiug, as it has for so long a time, in negli'cting these duties. And first it may be well to review .sonu^ of the work done in the past by whicdi we have become better acquainted with our coinitry. I shall refer aln.ost entirely to work done by those who were in the public service, whether of Great Britain, the old Provinces, or the Hudson's Bay Company and other fui'-trading companies, with only passing n-marks on others whose work had no ollicial origin. In 1S14, .\dmiral Bayfield, his duties in connection with the war being over, began a survey of the (Jreat Lakes, which after the labour of many years resulted in the .series of charts covering the entire St. Lawrence .system of lakes and j-ivera and i)arts of our Atlantic sea-coast, on which charts so much of our navigation still depends. He also found time abimt i88<) to publish in the lirst volume of the journal of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, papers on the geology of Lake Superior and on coral a'limals in the (iulf of St. Lawrence. Major-General, then Lieutenant Baddeley, and Sir Richard, then Captain Bonnycastle, both of the Royal Engineers, appear also to have been students of geology, and both con- trihuted ]>apers to the early vohnnes of the .same journal, the services of the former being used, aci'ording to Sir William Logan, in a public cai)acity. He was the first to write regarcling the lower Silurian limestones about Lake St. John and Murray Bay, and some of our early knowledge of the Labrador Coast and the Magdalen Islands, is due to him. About the time when Bayfield was surveying the Great Lakes, I'rof A. Lockwood, who was styled '' Professor of Hydrography and Assistant Surveyor- General of the Provijiee of Nova Scotia an(l C^ape Breton," was sui'veying the coast and harbours of that province, the result of his labours being published in 1818.* We are not so much concerned with mere topography, hut it is interesting to note that Major Samuel Holland, Surveyor-General of British North America, who, as eai'ly as IJfiS, was working out the latitude and longitude of Cape Breton, was the uncle of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bouchette, who was also Surveyor-General and did considerable work regarding the Maine boundary in connection with the Boundary (^^ommission under the: Treaty of (rhent, and whose topograi)hical and statisti<'al volumes on the various ea.stern provinces art' so well known. t From our * " Rrief I")escription of Nova Scotia." A. I.otUwood. Loiulon, 1818. I "A Tapojfraphical Dusi-ription of Lower Canada, ' J. Bouchette, Loiuton, 1815, t i "The British nominions in North America," etc. J. Bouchette, a vols., London. i8_j2. 3 " A Topographical Dictionary of Lower Canada." J. Bouchette, I^ondon. 1832. 3 jioint of view tlic services to science in Canada ofF)r. John .1. Higshy. who liad he»-n commissioned in icSli) to report on the jLC»u)!o^y t)i' Upper Canada, and l)ecanje in 1822 Secretary to the H(»undary Coni' lission already mentioned, are more interest- inj;. Wliile Colonel jJonchetie travelled ah.iiit the moi-e setth'd i)rovin<'es, investi- i^atinij; scijiiiiory h(»unstern territory which only came under our control after the Coti federation of 1807. Year by year we are becoming accpiaintcd with it. hut for a hundred years before the members of our (leological Surve\ began to thread its wilds it had appeali'd to the imagination of a few by its vfU'y remoteness from (uvilization, and the volumes published by the most lamous of its explorers are therefore fairly well known in literature. In 17()!) the Hudson's Bay Company i.ssued a letter of instructions to Samuel Hearne ordering him to undertake an " exi)edition by land towards latitude 70° north, in order to gain a knowledge of the Northeiii Indians' country.'" et<'. From 17Gi) to 1772 in(dusive, Hearne made several Journi-ys, the main objec^t being the discovery of copper mines and to try once more for the North-West Passage, so long and anxiously sought. Before his day, as since, the Comi)any had been accused of being lacking in enterprise and disposed merely to buy furs and keep the country as mut^h a terra incognita as i)msible. but this idea Hearne in the introduction to the account of his travels, endeavours to refute. The published accountf shows that in 1770 after a short Journey in 1769. Hearne travelled from Churchill into the not far distant country of the Doobaunt and Kazan rivers and back, thus covering part of the barren-lands country through which .L H. Tyrrell travelled on behalf of the Dominion Geological Survey in 1893-5)4. ^: On his return Hearne immediately set out again and travelling first westward, thus avoiding the barren-lands country, and then northward, he eventually reached the Coppermine River. He recorded little of geological interest but devotes an entire chapter to the description of the animal and vegetable life observed by him. For various reasons his geographical work is out of its reckoning, but apart from the mapping done by Tyrrell it (constitutes all that we know about an enormous area of Canada we.st of Hudson Bay. In 1789 the active competitor of the Hudson's Bay Comjtany, the Xorth-West Fur Company, sent Alexander IMaekenzie who had been for some years factor at Fort Chippewyan on Jjake Athabasca, on a journey of exploration, doubtless suggested by himself. We all know that he followed the Mackenzie Rivt^r to its mouth and returning set out from Lake Athabasca again in 1792. this tinu; up the Peace River to its source, crossing the height of land and reaching the Pacilic Ocean at about the fifty-second parallel. Sir Alexander Mackenzie was neither geographer nor naturalist, indeed he was only a trader, but he was on«^ of the men who subdue empire and enrich their (country in the effort to enrich themselves. His observation of natural resources and of tlie highways possible f,)r commerce was very keen and whether it has a reasonabh; connection with my subject or not, I cannot forbear quoting some remarkably prophetic words, from the closing pages * " Thesaurus Siluritus. The l''lom and F.-iuna of the Silurian Period." John J. Blgsby, London, i8(>8. t "Journey from Prince ot Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean," etc. Samuel Hearne, London, 1795. ; " Report of the Doobaunt, Kazan and Feri^^uson Kivers and the North-west coast of Hudson Bay, " etc. J, Burr Tyrrell. Geol, Surv, Can. Annual Report Vol. IX. 1896. (Published in 1897.) <»f tht> iicioiiiit of his tnivols.* After a ciirt'ful tliseusrtioii of wiiterwnys he coii- eludes us follows : " By openiuj; tliis iiittTfourst- hetwet'ii the Atlanti*- iuitl I'acKii: Ocouus, and f(»ri»iinnsaiid se\-cn hundred ami ninety-three.' " Captain (jeorge Vancouver being commi.ssiinied by the King on a voyage of discovery particularly to try once nnu'e for a [la.ssage between The North I'aeitic and North Atlantic Oceans, spent the years from 17itO to 179'>f at .sea during which tiine he surveyed the coast of North-West .imerica. We afe, however, more con- cerned with tlie work. of another explorer who sMcnl his life between the (Jreat Lakes and the racitic. but who. because of the indilUrence of his ct)untrymen, is les.** famous than Vancouver. I n^fer to iJavid Thompson, Astronomer and Surveyor, a.s he .styled himself, lirst to tlu' Hudson's Hay Company, then to the North-West Compariv, and later acting with the International Houndary Commi.ssiou,who from 1784 to 1 Hot), as the forty volumes of rect)rds and maps nnide with his own hand and now in the Crown Jjands Department of the Province ol" Ontario show, laboured strenuously for science. ]iractically without a fellow-worker. In the pub- lished journals of Alexander Ilenryf edited by Elliott Cper reaches and main upper tributaries of that mighty river, the pathfinder of more than one way across the continental divide from Saskatchewan and Athabascan to Columbian waters, tin; greatest geogiapher of his day in British America, and tluMuaker of what was then by far its greatest map — that 'Map oi' the Norlh-West Territory of the Province of Camida. Knmi actual surveys during the years 17!t2 to 1812' as the legend goes." During the years 181!) to 1822 inclusive. (.;ai)tain, afterwards Sir John Franklin, acting under a ro.val commission, was carrying out an ■' expedition from the shores of Hudson's Bay by land, to explore the northern coastof America, from tlu; mouth of the ('opi)ermine River to the eastwanl." This, and subsequent arctic expedi- tions, not only resulted in some imjjortant geographical discoveries. Initgave to the ■* " Voy.Tjfcs from Montreal oil llic Kivcr Sr. K;i»Tt'nce. thotitjh the L'ontinont ol North Americ.t to the !• lozeii .tnil Pacific Ocuitiis." .'\lcx;>nJer AIaclre to be the .sciintifie nu'inbers of the party. I'alliser had in 1847 and siu'cecdinj^ years, hunted anion;.; the ind'ans of our Xorth-West and knew the country, so tlial during 1807, 1858 and 185!), the various routes travelled by I'alliser. Blakiston and Hector, togi'ther and separately, pretty well covered the country south of the Saskatchewan from Lake Superior io the Rocky .Mountains and also throngh many of the passes and valleys beyonI. Dawson, in hi< Boundary Commission report hereafter referred to. says : '-To bin: the iirst leally trustworthy geiu-ral .ideological nuip of the interior jiortion of British North .\meriea is due ; and he has besides accumu- lated a great mass of geological observations, the signilicance of many of which appears as the country is more thoi-oughly exi)Iored." Captain Talliser thought it worth while to (explore this country ami to report elaborately upon the future prospects of civilization, but while his recommendations as to necessary ste]is are generally sound he certainly did not overestinnite its po.ssibilities. On the sid)ject of confederation he writes in the report of 18(i0 : " Much has been talked about, but perimj)S U-ss really thought of, the union of the British North .Vinericau Provinces, a scheme which, although in the i.rescnt age might be thought .-iomcwhat speculative, nuiy yet not oidy be [irojectcd but accom- plished. But it must be a work of time, and such time as many may b«-conie impatient even in contemplating." Regarding telegraphic communication he writes : ''It would be ri(licidt)us to expect for many years to come a continuous railway ('(unimudcation throughout this immense distance, but from the fact of over one-fourth of the distance being now complete, and considering the incalculable benefit the United Kingdom ami her distant colonies wouhl derive from connection by telegrapii. 1 am encouraged to a.boc'atc warmly the carrying out of this enter- prise."' In the same year, 1857. when Captain I'alliser received instructions from the British (Tovernment. the Canadian (Jovernment commissioned George <;ladman, Director, Henry Yoitle Hiiul, Geologist, W. H. E. Napiei p:ngineer, and S. J. Dawson, Surveyor, to " make a thorough exanunation of the tract of country between T-ake Superior and Reil River."" This was done in 1857. In 1858 the Government commissioned Messrs. Hind and Dawson to extend their explorations to the country -'west of Lake Winniix'ji and Red Rivei-, and embraced (or nearly .so) between the Riv»;r Saskatchewan and Assinniboine, as far west as 'South Branch House,' on the form<>r river." In addition to the olllcial re])orts-|- to the Canadian Government the reports a]>peared as British blue ])ooks and Professor Hind also published in an extended and attractive form the results of his labours in two handsome volumes. + Professor Hind, like Captain Palliser and Sir Alexander * "Papers Ri-latlve to K\i»lontl,-.n l-y Ciptain Pallistr ol that p.>rtioii vit Hrltisli N\>rtli America.' etc. British Blue Boole, 1859. " Furtlior Papers, " etc., in continuation of above. i8t)o. "Journal," etc.. iu continuation of ;ibovc', 1863. '■ Index and Maps," etc., in continuation of above, 1865, t "Report on the !''xp!oratlon of the Countrv between Lake Superior and the Ked River .Settlement " Canadian UUie Hook. 1857. British Ulue Book, i8sq. "Rep.rtot t'.ie As .innib.iiue and Saskatchewan Kvpeditiou. " Canadian Blue IJook, .«S4- Uritish Ulue Book, i860. { "Narriti.e of the Canadian Red River Ivxplorins Kxpedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Sa»- katchewan fc-vplorins Expedition ot 185,8." H. Y. Mind, i vols., Lonjjmans, London, i860. « i- MiMkt'ii/.ii'. iiidiiltjrs ill pr«j)hecy. He writes: "As I stoiul upciii th»' siii..iiiit of the blufl" iookiiif^ down upon the ulitterin); liiivc .'500 Icot iu'low. and across tlu- boun, nearly forty in number, relatiufj; to th(> settlement of the boiuidary between the United States and Canada, but in addition to the work by IJi^rsby and Houehelte this is the time to menti(»n two scientiiic results arisinji from markinii the forty-ninth jiaiallel. John Keast Lord who acted as Naturalist to the British North Ameiican Boundary Comnnssion when markinjjj the boundary line from the Pacific coast to the eastern slope of the Hocky Mountains, publisheil two illustiate<| volume^ in 1S6H on the natural history of British t'olumbia. ■ And in 1874 and 1X75. Dr. (Jeor^fc M. Dawson, not yet connected with the (Jeolo^ical Survey of Canada, made his reports on the {geology and resoun-es of the •• region in thi' vicinity of tlic forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky j\ijuntains."f I Inivethus far indicated, not with precise accuracy, l)Ut perhaps suMiciently, the extent of the e.vploratory woi'k done in the countiv now included in Canada. und« r the ausj)iees of the trading; companies and the early governments, and not by established geological and natural history surveys. If we consider tlu- publicatioi.s by their number they stand as an evidence of the inability or unwillingness of Canadians in the j>ast to grasp the future of their country, and judged by the (piantity of matter of a pui'ely scientific ntitiu'c, they Itetray an iiiditl'ereni'c to higher considerations ).ot cretlitable to their intelligence. We c-erlainly owe a debt of gratitude to the few ardent men who braved the terrors of our unknown lands and gave us this scanty literature. Before referring to the regular geological survey estab'islu'd in Canada in 1S4;^. I should like to compare the exploratory work done in the United Statts before the establishment of a regular geological survey, by the Federal t^lovernment.. It must be borne in mind that during nearly half a <'i!ntury Ix^fore the Federal (iovi'rnment established a regular survey mo.st of the States had established surveys on their own account just as we shall have o(H>asion to remind you that our survey was originally a Provincial and not a Dominion survey. Not referring, then, to the work done by the various States, but merely to the exploratory work of a similarly irregular character to that done in C-'anada in early days, I shall read a list of expeditions ordered by the United States Government. It does not pretend to be acH'urate either as to the luimberor as to the details given of the various expeditions. It was compih'd merely in order to indicate how much more earnestly the people of the United States craved for ijiformation about their unsettled areas. The majority of the rejtorts are quartos illustrated with expensive plates and oftei\ running into several volumes. The Pa<'i(i(! Railroad reports alone exceed in matter all that we have done. The dates given in the following list sometimes indicate the date of the exjiedition. .sometimes of the publication of the reports : — 1804-(). Captains Lewis and Clark. From the mouth of the Mi.s80uri River through to Pacific Ocean. 1805-7. — Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike. Through western territctries of North America. To head waters of Mississijjpi River, through Loiusiana Territory and in New Si)ain. 181i)-20. — Major Stephen H. Long, Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains. 1820 — Henry R. Schoolcraft. From Detroit through Great Lnkes to source of Mississippi River. ^i i^i * " Thi' Naturalist in V.-incoiiviT Inland and British Coluinbia." J. K. Lord, ■ vols., Bcnlley, London, i868. t " Report on ttie Tertiary Liffnite Formation, ' etc B. N. Boundary Coniniission, C">. M. Dawson, 1874. " Report of Ueology and Kesotirces,' etc. B.N. B.C.. G. M. Dawson. 187c;. H» \ 182.'i. —Major Stcitlu-ii II. Limj.'. To the sourcv of St. I'ltt-r's Uivor. Lakt- Wiiinc>i)i'ck, F.aki' oftht- Woods, etc. 1884. — (J. W. lMulli»'r«tonhauf,'h. F^lcvattd countrv lictween Mi.ssouii ami lUd River. 18;i5. — (;. W, lu'atluMHtoiihauKli. (Jreeii Hay to Coteaii er xMississippi Itiver. 184f;-r)().— Dnrinfi these years there were seven or ei^ht reports of minor military exjx'ditions in eonneetion with Texas. New Mexico and the Santa Fe route to California. 1848. — Lieut. J. \V. Aliert. (JeofjrRphieal examination of New Mexieo. 1861 — Prof. L. Ajra,ssiz. Examination of Florida Reefs, Keys jind Coast. 1852. — David Dale Owen. Iowa. Wi.scunsin and Minnesota. 1862.— Captain R. B. Many. Red River of Louisiana. 1853.— Captain Howard Stan.sbury. Valley of the Oreat Salt Lake i;f Itah. 18.')3-.")4. — Exploration and survey to ascertain the most praeticable and economieal route, for a railroad from the Mississijjjii liiver to the I'aeilic Oeean. 12 volumes. Published from 1855 to 18fiO. 1854. — Captain L. Sitj?reaves. The Zuni and Colorado Rivers. 1864.— Cai)taiii R. B. Marey. The Kra/os and Bi^ Wieliita Rivers. 1855. — David Dale Owen. Minnesota, Iowa aiul Wisconsin. 1855-57.— Lieu). (!. K. Warren. I- xpioration.s in Nebraska a'ld Dakota. 1857.— Lieut.-Coi. W. M. Emory. I'nited States and Mexiean Boundary Survey. 1857-58.— Lieut. .loseph C. Ives. The Colorado River of the Wist. 1859. — Captain.!. H. Sim}>son. (ireat Basin of Utah. 1859.— Captain .1. X. ^lacomb. Santa Fe to Grand and (ireen Rivers. 1859-60.— Captain W. F. Rayuolds. Yellowstone and .Ali.ssoiii'i Rivers. 1871-75. — Lieut. utions by his co-workers. Although the Federal (Jovernment v.i' \\n- I'nited States down to 18()7 iiad not established a regular geological survey and conducted the exploratitai ol' the Icrii- tories by semi-military expeditions generally luider control of the engineering department of the army, .-^everal of the State governments established surveys before 1835. and Sir William Logan in 1844 refers to '• the libcial view of their own interests, which, during the la.st ten years, has induced not less than twenty of the State Legislatures of the American Union to institute investigations into the mineral resources of their respective territories," etc. I, at one time, intended to prepare a list of the \arious State surveys now covering almost every State, which have been conducted during the last sixty -seven years, or thereabout, indicating when each survey began and the extent of the publications, but ! have found this imp<)ssil)l(' i'l tlio short tiiiu' at my disjiosal and I must coiiU'iit myself witlj such coir,pari' ns as will show how lHu'ial ami inlcllip-iit almost all oiher jiovciiiimt'i-.ts in Noi'tli Amovica iiavf hopu irlativols to our own. Iji>t us now turn to the fstahlishmoiit of our own regular survey.'^ In 1842, followinj^ the examjde of about twenty of the States of tlie American Union, the old I'n.vince (>f Caiuuhi instructed Sir William Loj^an to undertake a geoloj^'i-al siM'vey of the Provinci . work in couiicetion witii which liejian in ]. Sir William having one assistant. .Mr. .Vle.xander ^Iiu-ray. For the ensuing ten years these two devoted men worked in the field, and after a few years J)r. T. Sterry Hunt hecame their able co-worker iii the laboratory as clu inisl ami mineralogi." t to the .survey, tor '\11 practical jturposcs the first ofhccr of that character, although not literally the lirst. No matter how dt'vntcout as much matter as one annual report of the .survey now. Two maps of a mine accoi.ipany one of the pamphlets, and here and there there is a badly e.vecuted illustration, but (d fossils there are neither descripti,)ns nor illu.stratioiis. It is true that in I80I and 1852, Sir William Logan (U)ntributed imjiortant i)ai)ci'.- on the "'Foot-priuis in the I'otsdam Saud- Htones of Canada '■ to the ((uarterly Joui'ual of the (Jecdogicai Society in Lond.ui, which wvfc most ade()uately illustrated by the Society, but in ;hese i)apers he thanks a member of the Cieological Survey of Ureat Britain for naming the fossils he has occasion to refer to. If I could lay before you tiicse twelve slcder pam]ihlcts and the still nu)re slender rejiorts of Dr. Ge.sner nnule in the ^Maritime Provinces. 1 -reafter referred to. ar.d put beside Iheni the reports niadc by the various public surveys in the United States down to IS');?, you W')uld reali/.e nore foi'cil'ly tiian I can express in words ho\v comj)U'ti'iy the Canadians lailed to uike that " libeial view of their own interests'' which characterized the ]»eo]>ic of the United Stati's. But somewluit lietter days were in store for the suTvcy. Mr. James Hichardson had been added to the workers in the lield. an. ])ublished in one volume, was accomjianied by the tirst series of ma]»s, illusti'ating rej)orts on the geology and topograjdiy ol' the IMuskoka. PitcAvawa, Bonueclu're. .^lailawaska. .Maganetawan. l-'rench. Sturgeon, and Wahnapitae Rivers and Lake Nipissing and its tributiwies. also of the Ishuui of .Vr.ticosti. altogether about 2o majis. In this volume a])])eared the (irst report of the i)ahvoutol(;gist. the begiiiniiig of a scries which established ^Ir. P>illings" reputatiim throughout the scieiititic world. It is no! accomi)auied by illustiations. whi<'h fate also Ix'tel i^ome of his later reports. This is not so strange as the fact that to this day sonu' of his species have been allowed to remain unillustrated. It is characteiistic of our interest in science that his name is doubtless much better known to-day in Euro)>e than it is in Canada. In ISfio the re. ults of the vork of the survey from the "neginniiig ajvpeared in the well-known volume of bout l.OtK) pages, j'ublishc.i without a single jiiale but svith about oOO good wood-engravings and an i'XceH and 4, I * '• riie first ffforl m.ul.- tciw.ir,! tliL' I'st.lblishim'iil of .i m'>'l>'«ii.'i>l Miiviv in Cii laila. appiMis in a pilitioil aililri'ssi'J Id tile Hi.iisf i>t ,\ssfiiil)lv iif I'ppi-r I'.uiaila in iH\. . b\ I)r. I{.-il'. ^■otl^in^. . Iiovvcht. canir nl this or of M'veral other atli-nipls ot thi- sini.- kiiul. till in tin- first i.niti-ii I'arlianienl of I'pp^-r ami l.owur t'aiiaila in iS.|i, tht Natnral Historv S.vietv of Montreal an.l tlir Mistorioal Sotirty of OucIhv joiniit in iirjrinR the ri.ntliT iii>oii the tfovcrnmcnt, with the ri-sult th.U the mode-il s itn of IJi.s-xi sterlinsj was irrnnteit ".or the piirpoie i.f lv(;inninf{ sMi'h a survey." PresiJentia! .Vilitress. R. S. C. iSot. G. M. I>a«son. V II A appeared in 185S-59 and 1865. The coutributons were Mr. Billiugh of the (Junadiau Survey, Mr. Salter of tl)o Survey of (Jreat Britain, and Prof. James Hall, the State tTC<.iogi.«t of New York. Tiioy were slender octavo v«)lnines <-onlaiiiin^ altogether only 3V(» page.s of text, but with a liheral supply of exoellently engraved i)lates. Three of the Decades are mouogra£)hs on the subject dealt with, and the four voiunies are classics in North American Geology and absolutely esst-ntial to students of North American invertebrate jjalieontology. In 18()5 the lir.st volume, 4L'Gpp.,ofa series entitled •' I'alieo/.oic Fos.m1s'" appeared, the species described being entirely by Billings. Many of the descriptions are unacconiitanied by illustration.s and those allbrded are wood-cuts. In 18G6 the pamphlet, !Ju pp., entitled "Catalogues of the Silurian Fossils of the Island of Antico.sti," was published. It also eon.sihts of descriptions oi species, sometinn-s illustrated, some- times nol. This closes the work djne by the survey of the old I'rovince of C'aniula, the operations of which extended only to portions of what are now t^uebec and Ontario. As Sir William Logan .said, much of the jtcriod svas occupied in obtaining topographical knowledge suthcient to enable the tirst geological ma]) to be made, and iiuleed this is the main result of his labours.* When we look lit the very .small quantity of matter in the reports produced duriug (his j)eriod of twenty- four years we must deeply regret the inditlerence of a people who could leave uu- supporteti. save by two or three euthu.sia.sts, a man with such endowmeuts a«s the Director of the Survey, Sir William Logan, our honoured president in the first ye.'rof this In.stitute. \W' shall see later whatthiH ignorance sml imliHerence have cost us. But uarrcjw as was the scope of the work in old ('auada it was worse in the Maritime Provinces. As early as 1888, Dr. Abraham Gesner began a geological .survey ol' New Brunswick, which was carried on in some fashion until 1844, when it came to an end, the result being the reports . 88 pp., not, liowever, styled the fifth re{»ort. Dr. Gesner ha he published a volume on the "Industrial Resources of Nova Scotia," but whether aided by the provincial governmeut or not, I am unable to .' regarding gold. iron, coal, and esjiecially jietvoleum, but volume on New Brunswick, {.ublished iu 1847, aud noted Iielow.lj Dr. Gesner says: 'Of the British North American Colonies, New Brunswick was the first to tutdertake an examinauon of her mineral resources. Since the commencement of that survey, similar ones have been in- stituted in Newfoundland and Canada. Prince Edward's Isliud has also followed the example. Nova Scotia would have engaged in such a work long ago, w»'re not her uunes aud minerals sealed up by a close monopoly, which withholds from .''x' inhabitants any participation in the mineral wealth of the country." T'.iere were a few ai>])arently oflicial but irregular reports j)id>Iished in New Brunswittk which should iu)i be overlooked. In 18o0, J. F. W. Johuston made a report on the "Agricultural Ca))abilities of the Provirci' '" etc., which includes geological notes by Mr. P.obb. In 18(i4, L. \V. Bailey maoe a re]>orl on Mines aud Minerals. In ISfto, Messrs. Bailey. Matthew and Ilartt. nuule a geological rej)ort on Southern New Bnin-»vi:'k. We have already mentioned Professor Henry Youle Hind in (■onne«lion with the Red Riv:t coniiiiittec' ot tliv Luffistlntiirf appoinlt'd to invchtiKatB 'he workitiR" i^t th*? siirve\ . . i,o(jr;tti wmn .Twkcit \vh*it thr print'ip.-il difficiiltit's he h.id met with were ; he re- plied : ' ItuU'peiulcntU' df thiiM» iinavoid;iltiv inciili'iil to traveliiinf in I'aimi's up shalU>w riMTs, ^ir i»n foot through " ■ • - • ' - ' u; I -rtL.. k— . A *,. . I... ;_ Accurate topi^ijraphy is pheil : huU'peiuk'ntly ot {hOM» iinavoiuattly inculi'iil to iraveltunf in I'anoi-s up stialU'W n the forest, are thos;' nrisinir froin the want of a (Jood topojrraphical map of the country, the basis of aiiiir."ie ^jeolog:)-.'" Presidiiuial \dclre"!s. R. S. f.. iH<>4, O. M. Pax.son. First, Second, Third and FiHirth Reports on the Cuvlotrical Survey of the Province of New Brunswick." Gesner. St. John, ist, i8iq, 8a pp. : jmi, 1840. 7a pp. , jrd, 1841. 88 pp. ; 4th, 184a, loi pp, J " Remarks or the Geology and Mineralogy I'f Nova Scotia , with a new map of Nova Scotia. Cape Breton, Prince ICdward Island, and part of New Brunswick." Gesner. Halifax and London. iH-)f). I! "New Brunswick with Notes for Kmiurants." Gesner. London, 1847. 10 work he was the Prolessoi ol'lii'ology of Trinity University here, and lie had for many years edited the journal of this lustitiitt;. After eompleting the publieation of the otticial reports and maps and the other publications whieh resultepe only by the liberality of the Ciovernnu'iil of Ontario. ^linislers of the Crown in this province need not lilind themselves to the fact, liowever, that since 18()7. that is for thirty-two years, such material and intelle<'tual interests in this province as would be represented by a proper survey and public museu'M, and which, down to (\)nfederation, were being s<» excellently looked after by Sir William Logan, iiave been persistently neglcfted. The next public-ation regarding mines in importance is that of British Columbia. The Bureau of Mines of that province was established by legislation in 1895 and published its first bulletin in June, 18!)(!. The annual rejiorts for ISiXi and 1897. ))ublished in 1897 and 1898, respectively, are very creditable productions, (|uite superior as to printing and illustrations to those of (Ontario Novv if we i: Lher together the pre-Confederation work of C'auada, New Bruns- wick and other iovinces, and the publications bj' provinces since Confederation, including the ]\1 niug Bureaus, and compare the entire result with any one of .say five or six of the leading States in the United States, the result must make us botJi a.stonished and ashamed. But if we add all the work done by the Dominion Survey * " Kxplor.itioiis Im the Intorior ot tho l.a!ir;uli>r IV-niiisiil.-i. I'ti'. H. V. HInJ. j vols . I.oiulon, i!<(n t " Preliniin.nry Kepoit on (hr i;ciilo),'y ot New Bruiiswiik. ' llitul. I'Veilfniton, iSd.s. I "Miner.iloM:y and Ocoloi^y ot llu- I'rovimv ol^ Nov.i Siolia.' f T. J.iikson iml K. Alfji-t. Camhn'dKr, MasH,, i8;/, II ". Acadian lieoloKV ; an Aciount of the lieolot^iial StniiiiHC and Mint' ral Kl'soiitiv- i, because it was destined Jbr many years to be mainly topographical and only subordinately geological. .\s late as 1880 the present director of the Survey, in demonstrating the inaccuracy of our maps of the northern and western i)arts of the Dominion wrote as follows:* "It is very commonly sujjposed, even in Canada, but to a greater extent elsewhere, that all parts of the Dominion are now so well known that exploration, in the true sense of the term, may be considered as a thing of the past. This depends largely upon the fact that the nnvps of the country generally examined are upon a very small scale, and that upon such nuips no vast areas yet remain ujiou w liich rivt'rs, lakes, mountains, or other features are not depicted. If. however, we take the trouble to euipiiie more closely into this, ami considt, perhajjs, one of the geo- graphers whose name may appear on the face of the map which we have examined, a>*king such awkward (piestions as may occur to us on the souires of information for this region or that, we may probably by bit; be referred to another and older map, and so on till we find iu the end that the whole tojiographical fabric ol' large parts of all these mai)s rests upim information of the vaguesr kind. '' Of most of the large an as nnirked upon the map here shown, this is abso- lutely true, and the interests of knowledge, witii respect to these, would be better subserved if such areas were 'eft .'utii'ely blank, (tr. at least, if all llie geograi)hical features drawn upon them aiii)eared in l>idken lines in such a way as (o show that none of them are certain. Fn other regions, the main geographical outlines, su(di as the courses of the larger rivers, are indicated approximately, with such accuracy as may be possible from accounts or ilinen'ries derived from travellers or from oHicersofthe Hudson Bay Company ; or from th" descripticuis or rough ^kelches of Indians or other i)ersons by whom the region h:is been traversed, but who have been un|)rovi of the country has been incidentally obtained." i8i^. ' On Siimi" .it till' L.iiX'i' I'lii'xpliireJ KcK''i"> >>• t",iii:nl,i." Li. M. OiiWMWi. l)tt iwa .Niitur.ilist. \'ol. IV. i i. 12 Apart from tlin ^irt-as of Asia ami Africa not yet exaiiiiiied, and possibly of Brazil, the worlv Ijcf'oic tlif (jieolo};iiai ?^iir\ey of Cauad;; is the greatest in extent iu the world. The topofrrajihical \vori< alone is enough to break the heart of any director sui)portpd only by the meagre giants of t)ur Government, and if we con- sider the geological work, confined as it must be at first to the broadest generaliza- tions, it is fairly certain that we shall not in another century reach the position wiiere our people will have belbre them the information regarding t.'anada which is ])ossesse(l to-day by the people of the I'nited States regarding their counti->'. Our Dominion Survey, since Confederation, has published its annual reports of progress, and these lia\e grown in size until they are among the most important annual eontriI>utious to our knowledge of geology, but they are still oidy reports of progress ( ontaining information largely topograi)hical, accompanied by notes on the geological and nauiral history features. Tliese rei)oris have been accompanied by a libera! supply of maps, the majority of which arc topugra]ihieal and form material for llie conijilete map of the Dominion whicli we may liope to see iu half a century or so. In addition to the report of the director these annual reports of progress contain in separate jiapers the results of the labours of the various exidor- ing parties and tlie re])orts of the section of chemistr> and mineralogy and the section of mineral .statistics and mines. The work of the |iabeontological section is published separately. These have apjjcared under several titles in a manner which makes it difficult to at once apj>reeiate just how much work has been done. There are at least five distinct .series, mo.st of which are still in progress. There are the •' I'alieozoic Fossils'" of which the first volume ])r(<-eded ('(nilederatif>n. The tii-st })art of the second volume, conlaining work by liillings. apjieared in 1874 and remains unfinished. Of the third volume three parts have ap[)eared — 1SS4, 1S'J5 and 1897. Then we have the " iMeso/.oic Fossils'" »)f which three parts of the lirst volume have been pulslished — 187(>. 187i> and 1884. There is a series entitled " Contributions to Canadian Pala-ontology " of whicii the lirst volume was jiub- lisbed in live part.- and is complete— 1885, I88it, 1891, 18!*:^ arid 18!)8. The ])re- .sent able pabeontologist. Mr. .1. F. Whiteaves, Assistant Director of the Survey, sucoeedee suhmitted to other paUeontolojjisls, who are experts in the jjurticular subjects, a new day wnuld dawn for us. but without money this is impossible. I have not alluded to the ))artieular exiiloralions of those who workeil in the lield luider the directorship of Dr. Selwyn and of his suc- cessor, Dr. Dawson, and o*" their fellow-worker.s in thi; laboratory and study. It woubl be impossible to mention the names nf all or t<> make a selection, but we can well aiford to thank the lew who are leil in the field. Messis. .MeConindl, Kell, Ells, Fletcher, Low, Mac()un. and others, for their de\otion. In 1867, the year in wliieli tiie Dominion (lovernment took chars'-e of «>ur survey, the L'^nited States inaugurated the Urst regular survey under the Depart- ment of the Int rior. It was called the •• (iecdogical and (ieogi'aphical Survey of the Territories," and was underthe charge of Dr. F. V. Hayden, until it was .super- seded in 1880 by what is called the •• I'inted States (ieological Survey." A comparison of the publications of these two surveys alou«' with thost* of Canada during the same period, would be unfair to the United Statis, because we thus oveilook the publicationsof the Smithsonian Institution, the I'nited Slates National JIuscum, ami other dej)artmcnts at Washington, but the residt is oviiwhehning enough. We must also bear steadily in mind the fact that while these publications were being produced, twenty-five or thirty States wen- also actively at work, while the Trovinces of Canada were doing practically nothing. During Ihiydi'u's Survey, 18()7-lS7!l, animal ri'itorts were issued somewhat similar to ours in size and character, but there were also live volume;^ of bidletius. containing upwards of ITiO papers, thirteen miscellaneous, and fifteen nncla.«silied publications, about seventy-five maps, and thirteen final reports or moin)graphs. The monographs weri' splendiil ipiartos. liberally supplied with plates and other illustriitions, ;ind illustrating and describing vertebrate and iuvertebrate fossils, including fossil insects, also fossil flora, and existing forms of rodents, acridians, rhi/.opoils, etc., all from the far West. The iiresent siirv(>y has j)nblisned nineteen annual reports. The last report will include, a])pavently. six i)arts, and sr)me of the i)arts cover two volumes. I w'.-.li it were possible to ex]tlain here the scope of this one annual report. Of bulletins about loO had been published down to 1S97, and of j)apers on Avater supply and irrigation, ten. Of monographs, of the same character as those under Ilayden's Survey, thirty-four. Of inajis. statistical pajiers, etc.. there has been also a liberal supply. The operations of (Hir Survey for the year ending .June .'JOth, 18it7, cost $117,001). For the nearest year iuthe United States the cost was i?l,0;U,0()0. Onr usual basis of comi)arison is populati(jn, and measured thus we sjiencl the nu»st, but clearly, that is not the measure for this particular item of national expense. The real basis of comparison between the United States and Canada of (xpenditure for survey and topograjjiiic purposes, should be the resptMitive areas of unexplored or insutticientiy explored territrt with the Dominion Surxt'; , so thai in all resi)eels there would be united effort anU'h broad truths of geology and natural history as are gathered during these rapid topographic surveys, but we should be engaged in oiu' provincial surveys on reports dealing with the features of each (iounty sejtarately, and in our Dominion Survey in working out special problems of geologic or other .scientific interest. For instance, in the United States there are many complete monographs dealing with the iron ores of different localities, or the coal, or natural gas, or the forestry conditions, or other problems of great commercial importance. Have we no curiosity about our great areas of iron ore, our really wonderful coal fields, and our other minerals? Should we not appreciate intelligent moiu)graphs on the treatment of refractory ores, on modern mining machinery, on brick-making, salt-wells, gas- wells, and the many other things so intelligently i)reseuted to the people by the State in more favoured countries? Of course we should. Let our Governments but try. And as to Public Museums. The Dominion Government at Ottawa and each province, at its city of chief importance, slu)uld have a mu.seuni belonging to and supported by the people. These museums should contain exhibits of the metallic and non-metallic minerals of the country, both those of economic and of merely scientific value, the forest trees, with the bark preserved, in say six feet sections, cut iilso and partly polished, and each si)ecimen accompanied by a small map showing its habitat ; the fresh water and sea fishes, mounted after the modern methods ; the fur-bearing animals, the game birds, and the birds of our forests, fields and sea-coast, many of them mounted so as to tell a child their habits at a glance ; the reptiles, crustaceans, insects, plants, indeed as complete a record of the fauna and Hora of the country as possible ; the rocks of stratigraphic importance and all the varieties of fossils which can be gathered in this country ; the archaeological and ethnological evidences of the races we have supplanted in Canada, and much more that does not occur to me at the moment. I should not like to suggest a limit of expenditure on such museums. The necessity of a new building at Ottawa is admitted. The crime of leaving exposed to fire, in a wretched building never intended to protect anything of value, the precious results of over fifty years of collecting, has been pointed out in a recent otticial report. But the Government seem deaf to such claims. I can only repeat that we are rich enough to bear the cost with ease, but we are not intelligent enough to see our own interest in spending the money. I have been careful to indicate that so far as this is an account of what has been done in geology and natural history in t.'anada, it is mainly a recurd of work done officially, that is for the governing bodies and not by individuals unassisted by public money. But it must not be supposed that I am unmindful of the fund of information which has reached the public through the journals of the scientific societies of Canada,someof which have been labouring for over half a century in this field of higher education. Nor must I fail to acknowledge that such societies are, as a rule, aided by public grants of money. It would have been a great pleasure to have mentioned many of the writers and investigators who have contributed gratuitously in the pa.st to this fund of knowle«lge, but T can do no more than to record here our gratitude to some of the living geologists — to Sir J. William Dawson, Dr. G. F. Matthew, Prof. L. W. Bailey, Dr. J. W. Spencer, Dr. F. D. Adams, Prof. A. P. Coleman, Mgr. J. C. K. Lallamme, and all others who still labour in the good cause, although not members of our Sux'vey. I am aware that I should add tlie names of many botanists, ornithologists, entomologists and other 15 workers in natural history, but I fear my knowledg.; of these subjects is too limited to enable me to give credit where it is due. I am sure I must have wearied you with such a lengthy address. I have but one excuse — my firm belief that the future of Canada depends to a degree not generally recognized, upon our liberality in spending money to exploit our country. .