The number of eminent living geologists surviving since the days of De la Beohe and Ramsay and the beginnings of the Geological Survey must indeed be very few, but in Dr. A. R. C. Selvvyn, the subject of this brief notice, we have a living illustration of one of those active and energetic early workers whose labours have extended from Britain to Australia and Canada, and who, after half a century of active service in the field, is now enjoying his well-merited repose in British Columbia, “the land of the far West.”