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on the Montreal Road about 200 y.irJs east of the St. L & O. Ry. 

 crossing and noted 111 the last Report ot the Geological Branch, has 

 beensince referred to Dr. George Jennings Hinde of Croydon, Eng., 

 the best authority on fossil sponges, and he has described it in the 

 " Geological Magazine" for January 1891, pp. 22 to 24. under the name 

 oi Stepluinella sancta, (N. gen. et n. sp.) 



This species along with Brachiospongia digitata, Owen, Astylospon- 

 gia parvida^ Billings, Steliella Billim^si, Hinde, Ste'iella crassa, Hinde, 

 and Hyalostelia sp. from the Trenton of Ottawa, comprise most of the 

 ancient sponge fauna occurring in the Ordovician Seas known from 

 this region. 



Moose Creek. — The Pleistocene deposits of Moose Creek, Green's 

 Creek, Experimental Farm and Casselman were examined in several 

 cases in detail and interesting notes obtained ;— 



At Moose Creek the following species were obtained in the strati- 

 fied gravels north of the C. A. R. track : — 



1. Tamias striatus, Linn. 



2. Mytilus edulis, Linn. 



3. Macoma fragilis, Fabricius, 



4. Macoma calcarea, Chemnitz. 



5. Saxicava rugosa Linn. 



6. Balanus crenatus, Bruguiere. 



Mr., Walter S. Odell, one of the recent and valuable additions to 

 the membership of our Club, brought to my notice several specimens of 

 fossils from the ' Leda ' clays of Odell's brick yard, just S.E. of Ottawa 

 city, and amongst the forms examined there were bones of the seal, and 

 fine specimens of a fossil sponge, besides foraminifera. 



List of Fossils from the Clays of Odell's Brickyard 



1. Phoca Groenlandica, Mueller. 



2. Tethsea Logani, Dawson. 



3. Saxicava rugosa, Linn^us. 



4. Polystunella crispa. 



5. Dentalina sp. 



6. Eschara elegantula, d'Orbigny. 



Besides the above notes on specimens and excursions, as well as 



