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drawn away from these obscure and difficult portions of the region in 

 question through the researches of Mr. T. C Weston, F.G.S.A., of our 

 Geological Survey. It was in 1877, that, for the first time, Mr. Weston dis- 

 covered fossil remains in the strata of Quebec city, and amongst the 

 specimens collected on that occasion there were noted the obscure 

 remains of Leptcemi sericea, Sowerby, and of a species of Ampyx, closely 

 related to Ampyx rostmtus, together with crinoidal fragments* 

 These came from the limestone rocks of Mountain Hill. 



The purpose of this paper is mainly to note the interesting dis- 

 covery of fossils made this summer by Mr. Weston, in the rocks of 

 Mountain Hill, of which Mr. Weston gives a description in the fore- 

 going pages of the Naturalist. There is added to the notes on the 

 fossil remains collected this season, a few more on the small but like- 

 wise important collection made by Mr. Weston and Dr. Selwyn in 1892. 

 The determinations are of course preliminary and dependent upon the 

 mode of preservation, etc. 



Mountain Hill Fossils. 



Inasmuch as the collections of 1892 and 1894 were both made by 

 Mr. Weston and at the very same locality, there is no practical reason 

 for keeping them separate at this time, and for the sake of brevity they 

 will all be grouped together under the heading of Mountain Hill fossils, 

 Quebec City. The collections comprise in all about 125 specimens 

 and embrace an assemblage of forms which are for the most part new 

 to the massif of Quebec city, whilst not a few are probably new to 

 Canada. 



Preliminary Notes on the Fossils. 



Protozoa. 



1. Niditlites favus, Salter, var. A rather crushed and imperfectly 

 preserved specimen of what appears to be a variety of Salter's species, 

 Niduiites favus, a Rhizopod with marked affinities for such genera as 

 Pasceolus, Billings Sphcerospongia, Salter, and Cyclocriuus, Eichwald. 

 The hexagonal character of the "plates," the presence of the 'central 

 papilla ' or styliform projection in the central portion of the plate are 



