. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY—DECADE OF 1860-1869. 549 Upon the recommendation of Logan, Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, an Eng- lishman, for several years connected with, the geological survey of (J reat Britain under De la Beche, and from 1852 until 1869 director of the geological'survey of Victoria, Australia, was. upon under seiwyn, the retirement of the tirst named, made director of the geological survey of Canada. In this capacity Selwyn served for twenty-fi
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY—DECADE OF 1860-1869. 549 Upon the recommendation of Logan, Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, an Eng- lishman, for several years connected with, the geological survey of (J reat Britain under De la Beche, and from 1852 until 1869 director of the geological'survey of Victoria, Australia, was. upon under seiwyn, the retirement of the tirst named, made director of the geological survey of Canada. In this capacity Selwyn served for twenty-five years, or until 1894. He was assisted by II. H. Ami, Elkanah Billings, and J. F. Whiteaves. paleontologists; Robert Bell, George M. Dawson, James Richardson, and J. B. Tyr- rell, geologists, and B. J. Harrington and T. Sterry Hunt, chemists. With this efficient corps the work of the sur- vey was pushed vigorously, hut, extending as it did beyond the time limits laid down for this sketch, it can be touched upon but briefly. During the period of his administration twenty large annual reports were issued and nine volumes on paleontology and paleo- botany. The work of the survey was pushed westward as far as British Columbia, and though ever with economic ends in view, much was accomplished in the wa}^ of pure science. The gold fields of Nova Scotia were investigated and the silver deposits of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior. The stratigraphic problems involved in Logan's "Quebec group" also received attention. His aim from the start, as stated by one of his biographers, was to make the survey an eminently practical depart- ment in which the records of the mines and mineral statistics should be kept for the use of both the Parliament and the public. Selwyn is pictured to us as a scholar of rare ability, social, amiable, and chivalrous in private life, but a strict disciplinarian; tall, grace- ful, quick, and alert, of a rather highstrung and nervous disposition, and wi
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