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Waterville. They are called Nereites or Nereograpsus, and My- 

 rianites. Upon page 232 it is stated that " a perfect set of these 

 fossils could be found in no Cabinet in the whole State." We de- 

 sire to correct this statement, and say that in Waterville Colle^-e 

 there may now be found not only all the species hitherto described, 

 but also one or more new genera of these curious impressions, and 

 these the finest specimens that ever have been obtained from Maine. 

 It is fitting that the Cabinet of this College, so near the place where 

 these earliest inhabitants of the State of Maine flourished, should 

 now contain the most perfect set of their remains. 



Prof. Hamlin of Waterville College, at our request, procured a 

 large number of these fossils, and sent us a full suite of them. 

 His efforts in our behalf, have received our warmest thanks, and 

 deserve honorable mention in our report. He says in his letter that, 

 "for eight weeks I gave, on the average, two days per week to 

 collecting. In this time some four hundred specimens were found 

 good enough to be worth taking home. On picking over the whole 

 lot on Monday last, all the really good specimens that could be 

 mustered were those I have sent you, and about twenty-five that 

 I have retained for the College Cabinet." Very few professional 

 men would take as much pains as Professor Hamlin has done to 

 oblige a stranger. In return, the Survey will send shortly a num- 

 ber of the rocks, plants and marine animals collected by them, for 

 the College Cabinet. It was owing entirely to Professor Hamlin's 

 generosity that the Cabinet had an imperfect set of these impres- 

 sions in 1861, when we examined the collections. At the earliest 

 possible moment these Silurian fossils will be carefully studied, 

 and compared with the impressions of living worms and crusta- 

 ceans, in the hope that their true character may be satisfactorily 

 determined. Of late their similarity to certain forms of crustacean 

 impressions has been suggested. 



Franklin and Oxford Counties. Several items of interest were 

 noticed by us on the way from Leeds Junction to Eangely Lake. 

 In Leeds there appeared to be examples of singular alluvial depos- 

 its, at considerable height above the ocean. The rock is mica 

 schist in Leeds and Livermore, though at the Falls it resembles 

 talcose schist. There is a fine quality of granite between the two 

 villages of Jay. East of the depot at North Jay it is quarried ex- 

 tensively. Near East Wilton the schists, almost a slate, reappear, 

 and continue up the valley of Sandy river to Phillips. 



