Notes, Reviews and Comments. 215 



The Scientific African. The Scientific African is a new 

 monthly journal which will contain popular scientific articles on South 

 African Animals, Plants, Rocks, and Minerals, containing not only 

 accurate and illustrated descriptions, but also the habits, uses, and 

 occurrences of them in South Africa and elsewhere. 



All the industries of South Africa, in the Colony, Transvaal, Free 

 State, Rhodesia, etc., will be described, also the workings of Mines and 

 Collieries, Bridges, Harbour Works, and other engineering matters by 

 which the wealth of South Africa is being enhanced. 



All the latest news in the scientific world will be recorded, and the 

 columns of the paper will be open to the discussion of scientific matters 

 that interest and concern all classes in South Africa. 



The Scientific African is to be published monthly and will appear 

 simultaneously at Cape Town and Johannesburg, on the ist Nov. 1895 



NOTES ON SOME FOSSILS FROM THE TRENTON OF 

 HIGHGATE SPRINGS VERMONT NEAR THE 

 CANADIAN BOUNDARY LINE. 



By Henry M. Ami. 



In the Spring of 1893, in Company with Dr. R. W. Ells of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, I had occasion to examine the fossiliferous 

 rocks occurring in that most interesting and classic region about the 

 east shores of Missisquoi Bay, both north and south of the international 

 boundary line. 



The geological structure of this district had been carefully studied 

 and described by the late Sir William Logan and the late Mr. E. 

 Billings and further contributions to the geological history of this 

 district were published in i83i by Prof. Jules Marcou* and 

 later by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock in an early number of the Bull. Amer. 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



On page 855 ot the "Geology of Canada," Montreal, 1863. fig. 

 444 Sir William Logan gives a " section at Highgate Springs, Vermont" 

 indicating clearly the various anticf'nal folds and other flexures and 

 faults of that locality. The relation of the Ulica, Trenton, Bird's Eye 

 and Black River, and Chazy formations to one another are therein 

 indicated and described whilst the fossils which characterise the forma- 

 tions are mentioned in the text. 



It is not my purpose in this paper to discuss the various 

 problems which centre around the " Quebec Group " and " Taconic " 

 controversies at this point nor yet to combat or assist in proving the 

 theory of "colonies " of Barrande supported by Marcou, but simply to 

 give a list of the species of fossils collected by Dr. Ells and myself at 

 Highgate Springs from the limbs of the denuded Franklin House 

 anticline and flexures of the Trenton formation. 



*Bulletinde la Soc. Geol. de France, Extrait, Paris, 1SS1 . 



