Abstract
ALTHOUGH Mr. Selwyn, like his predecessor, Sir William Logan, has the highest possible ideal of the importance of pure geological mapping, the necessity for the rapid exploration of a vast unsurveyed new land simultaneously with the development of rich coalfields, compels him to employ two very different systems of working. With a staff of only ten geologists, two-thirds of whose time is engrossed by topographical preliminaries, the usefulness of the survey as a whole must depend to a great extent on the judicious determination of the degree of importance attached to the details of its various parts. Accordingly, Mr. Selwyn has confined the detailed mapping to the settled eastern sea-board, carrying on at the same time reconnaissances in the central and western regions, where complete maps will not be demanded for some time to come.
Geological Survey of Canada.
Report of Progress for 1874–75. Alfred R. C. Selwyn., Director. (Published by Authority of Parliament, 1876.)
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JACK, R. Geological Survey of Canada . Nature 16, 40–41 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016040a0
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