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3. Note on the Discovery of Fossils in the " Winooski 

 Marble " at Swanton, Vt. ; by E. Billings, F.G.S., Palae- 

 ontologist of the Geol. Surv. Canada. — A few days ago Mr. Solon 

 M. Allis, of Burlington, Vt., visited our museum and informed 

 me that he had a specimen of the Winooski marble of Swanton 

 which contained some fossils. Since then he has sent it to me* 

 It contains, abundantly, a species of Salterella, which I believe 

 to be the S. pulcJiella described in my Pal. Foss., vol. i, p. 18. 

 This marble, both at Swanton and St. Albans, seems to underlie 

 the Geologia slates. It is generally of a reddish, mottled color, 

 but sometimes gray or greenibh. The limestone at the straits of 

 Belle Isle, in which >S^. ijuhhella is found, is also red, gray and 

 greenish ; and is, I have no doubt, of the same age. At this 

 latter locality it overlies a red or brownish sandstone, conformably, 

 which holds ScoUthus linearis. I consider the Belle Isle sand- 

 stone to be the '' Quartz rock " of the Green mountains of Ver- 

 mont. In that case, the limestone at Belle Isle occupies, strati- 

 graphically, the position of the Stockbridge limestone as repre- 

 sented by Dr. Emmons in his American Geology, part 2, p. 19. 

 On page 19 of the same work, Dr. E., speaking of the Stockbridge 

 limestone, says : " It is reddish at Williamston and is intimately 

 blended with silex." In his Report on the Second Geological 

 District of New York, in 1838, page 232, he gives a section of 

 the rocks at Burlington combined with one of the strata at Port 

 Kent. He there notices a gray limestone (at Burlington) of 

 which he says : — " It is a stratum, which in Berkshire county, 

 and other parts of the country, has generally been placed among 

 the primary rocks ; it is identical with the limestone at the base 

 of Saddle mountain, and which covers more or less of the western 

 flank of the Green Mountains." If the limestone to which he 

 alludes is one of the gray varieties of the Winooski marble, then 

 he is most probably right. I believe Mr. Allis' s fossils are the 

 first that have been found in the Winooski marble. 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



Deep-Sea Dredging in the Gulp of St. Lawrence. — The 

 marine zoology of the deeper parts of the River and Gulf of the 

 St. Lawrence has not been investigated until quite recently. This 

 summer, under the auspices of the Natural History Society of 



