Letter from [John William] Dawson, McGill University, Montreal, to George Gabriel Stokes, President, The Royal Society Refers to Stokes presidential address, Professor Huxley's address the previous year and 'the proposed action of the Council of the Royal Society on the subject of a scientific federation of the empire under the auspices of the' Society. Discusses geological science and argues it 'will lend itself to scuch a union' compared with 'other departments of scientific work'. Refers to the International Congress of Geologists. Dawson proposes a union of English-speaking geologists, to 'lay a broad foundation of geological fact, classification nomenclature and representation which would ultimately be adopted by other countries' 17 February 1887