The following remarks are the results of observations made during the summer and autumn of the year 1858, and are designed to illustrate a series of fossils and rock-specimens collected during the same time from the glacial, tertiary, and cretaceous formations of the island, and from the metamorphic and igneous rocks of Esquimalt and Victoria. The observations have been made at Esquimalt and Nanaimo, and on board H.M.S. “Satellite” in the Gulf of Georgia. The references in the sketch-section annexed are to the map of the S.E. portion of Vancouver Island by J. D. Pemberton, published by Arrowsmith. The beds are described in stratigraphical order, commencing with the lowest. 1. Metamorphic and Igneous Rock .—These are everywhere seen in the neighbourhood of Esquimalt and Victoria, principally occurring in the form of dark-green sandstones and shales, which pass by insensible gradations into serpentine and chlorite-slate. They are very full of small strings and veins of quartz. The harder beds are very much jointed; and it is often difficult to obtain a fresh fracture, owing to their tendency to split into rhomboidal fragments, the surfaces of which are generally much rusted and tarnished from the action of water infiltered through the joints. Several beds of unfossiliferous crystalline limestone are associated with the metamorphic rocks above-described, and are often of considerable thickness. A section in the cliff at the Boundary Commission Barracks exhibits alternations of compact and shaly blue limestone over a thickness of forty feet, the strata being vertical. At another point on