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characteristic of the above deposit which afford a great deal of promis- 

 ing material for examination. 



Mr. Stewart having reported^from the Treuton Hocks of Belle- 

 ville, Ont. (a locality outside of the Club's radius), Cyrtolites com- 

 pressus, Conrad, for the fii'st time recorded in Canada; Mr. Ami was 

 led to re-examine a form collected by him on the Castor River (vide 

 Trans., O.F.N.C, Vol. II, No. 2, p. 257, 1884-85) on the occasion of 

 a sub-excursion of the Geological Branch, and found it to be the same 

 species. At the latter locality it was found associated with Bucania 

 hidorsata, Hall, Belleroi^hon hilohatus, Sowerby, and other characteristic 

 species of the Trenton formation. 



Mr. Sowter reports that during the past year he has examined a 

 number of fossiliferous localities on both the Ontario and Quebec shores 

 of Lake Des Clienes, in the Chazy and overlying Black River forma- 

 tions, l>at more particularly in the latter. From these he has obtained 

 a fine suite of fossils whi.h he intends shall form the subject matter for 

 a communication or note to be presented at a subsequent Soiree of the 

 Club, and which promises to be a valuable contribution, including as 

 his collections do some rare, choice and, no doubt, unrecorded species 

 from that district. 



-Mr. Henry M. Ami re[)orts that during the past season he was 

 present at three out of the four general excursions which were held 

 under the auspices of the Club, and on which occasions he acted as 

 leader in geology, ijesidts conducting a number of successful sub- 

 excursions, especially in the latter part of the season the most 

 favourable for such work. These excursions and sub-excursions were 

 held to various objective points in and about the city, so that nearlv all 

 the formations comprised in the Ottawa series were visited and 

 examined from the Laureutian, so beautifully developed in the hills 

 to the north to the Post-Tertiary deposits overlying all the inter- 

 mediate formations included. From these, a number of interesting 

 facts were ascertained and noted respecting the geologic structuie of 

 their measures and the organic remains contained in them, whether trom 

 the Potsdam, Calciferous, Chazy, Black River, Trenton, Utica or 

 Hudson River, as well as from the fossiliferous Post-Tertiary clays and 

 sands. 



