9^ iflLimARY 



REPORT OF Till'] (lEOLOGICAL RRANOHj^ 



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To iha L'ounc'd of tJie Ottawa Fiehl yaturalists Club. " ^p 



The leaders have much pleasure in reporting that continued j)ro- 

 gress in the development of the geological and kindred resources of this 

 rich and interesting firld of research has marked the season just passed. 

 Mr. John 8lewart, whose enei-gy and zeal have been rewarded l)y the 

 accumulation of veiy extensive and valuable collections of fossils from 

 the splendid exposui-es of Ottawa and its environs, reports that during 

 the past yeai- he has made a large number of very interesting finds in 

 the various formations of this district. Besides making <in elaborate 

 collection of the species represented in the Hudson River foim<tion 

 outlier on the Canada Atlantic Railway some four miles distant from 

 the city and collecting also in the Utica Formation immediately undei- 

 Ivim'this alone; the Rideau River, ^Ir. Stewart has discovei'ed a num- 

 ber of rare and even new species in the Trenton I'ocks, fioni which he 

 has made an especially vaiuable collection, comprising beautiful crinoids 

 and cystideans, for which this locality is already so famous in paheon- 

 tolotrical circles. Besides these he has also made an extensive collection 

 of the species associated in the saii\e foiination, nujst of whicli are 

 readily identified as Prof. Hull's oi Mr. LJillings' species and are to be 

 found in the various lists of fossils published by the Club. Detailed 

 notes on these will, we hope, l>e soon forthcoming from the ])en of Mr. 

 Stewart whose activity in connection with the interests of g'ology, 

 and ])al{eontology more i)articulaily, lias been marked, e\er since his 

 ai-rival in Ottawa when he joincHl the CJJub. Nor have the old palaeo- 

 zoics of Ottawa been the only rocks examined l)y him ; his fiehl of re- 

 search lias extended to, and has included, the Post-Tertiary dej)Osits ot 

 Green's (.'leek in Gloucester a locality often cited for interesting nni- 

 tcrial one which has been made famous by the pen of Sir William 

 Dawson and others. A very interesting specimen ot a lish, larely met 

 with in these deposits, was fouiul by him ami is most |)robably refer- 

 able to a form ascribed to the genus Cottus in the "Geology of Canada" 

 18G3, p. 917, and which at the present day lives in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence and along the Western Atlantic coast. Besides this interest- 

 ing (is!< Mr. Stewart has also collected renuiins of plants and shells 







