Miscellaneous, 



lage of Franklin, more than 800 feet in thickness. The base is a 

 brick red shale, with occasional red argillaceous sandstone, about 

 400 feet. On this is about fifty feet of greenish shale ; on which 

 lies a stratum of gray sandstone, with teeth and plates of fishes, and 

 fossils of the Chemung group. Seventy feet of green shale lies 

 on this fossiliferous stratum ; when another thin band of fossils, 

 with gravel and the same formation, continues with alternate shale 

 and gray sandstone and fossils to the top of the hill, where the 

 Chemung fossils are more numerous. Spirifers, Rhynchonellas, 

 Pectens and Athyres are found in all the strata of the upper three 

 hundred feet, and the whole formation is undoubtedly Chemung, 



I examined other localities with the same result. 



Mr. Way has examined the rock as far as Deposite (twenty- 

 five miles southwest), with great care, and finds the same forma- 

 tion. He has also collected the same fossils at Delhi, seventeen 

 miles southwest. 



From my investigation, I believe there is no Old Red Sandstone 

 in this State. I found no forms among the fish remains like those 

 of the Old Red Sandstone ot Great Britain, but we have plates far 

 larger than those found there. 



The Teeth closely resemble those described by Dr. Newberrt, 

 from the Corniferous rocks of Ohio and New York. 



Respectfully your obedient servant, 



E. Jewett." 



MEETING OP ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



In accordance with the suggestion made in the June number 

 of the Naturalist^ that a meeting of those interested in the study 

 of Entomology, should be held in Toronto, during the Provincial 

 Exhibition, a number of ardent votaries of this branch of science 

 assembled at the residence of Professor Croft, on Friday evening, 

 September 26th. The following gentlemen were present : — Rev. 

 Prof. Hincks, F.L.S., and Prof. Wilson, LL.D., of University 

 College ; Thomas Cottle, Esq., Woodstock ; Thomas Cowdry, Esq.; 

 M.D.,York Mills ; W.L. Lawrason, Esq., London, C. W.; Beverley R. 

 Morris, Esq., M.D., Toronto ; E. Baynes Reed, Esq., and William 

 Saunders, Esq., London, C. W. ; and Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, B.A., 

 Cobourg : — a very fair representation, on the whole, of the En- 

 tomologists in the western portion of the Province. Several 



