COPY.
The University of British Columbia.
Faculty of Applied Science
office of the Dean.
Vancouver,
CANADA.
November 30, 1921.
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John W. Evans Esq.,
Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau,
2, Queen Anne's Gate Buildings,
Westminster,
London, S.W.1.
My dear Dr. Evans:
With further reference to your letter of October 21, regarding
a Geological Survey of the Colony of Hongkong would it be satisfactory
if this were undertaken by the staff of the University of British Columbia.
The members have all had extended field experience with the Geological
Survey of Canada, and are in fact the best men trained by the Survey,
namely Dr. S.J. Schofield, Dr. M.Y. Williams, and Dr. W.L. Uglow. It
hould be impossible for any one of us to spend two or three seasons in
the field, as the field season coincides with the University session,
but it might be possible, if this were satisfectory, for each to spend
e season on the work until completed. One great advantage in this from
the standpoint of the geological work would be that each hes specialized
in a different line, Schofield in Physical and Structural Geology,
Williams in Palaeontology and Stratigraphical, Uglow in Mineralogy and
etrography, while my work has been largely regional, reconnaissance,
ni economic. There is an advantage in having the field viewed, and
he province studied, by several men with different view points, and as
are all together here, there would be no difficulty in correlating
nd unifying the work. The problems would interest us as we are ctually specializing on Pacific problems, both on account of their bering on and relationship to the Province of British Columbia, and
connection with the Pacific Investigations Committee of the Research puncil, Ottawa. This Committee is the result of the Pan Pacific
ientific Congress and is intended to cooperate with similar committees ppointed by the countries bordering the Pacific. Upon this committee
e have geological representatives.
P.T.0.