454 NOTES ON DR. AMI’S PAPER ON DICTYONEMA SLATES,—POOLE. 
from the syncline at Green Bank, Point Pleasant Park, Halifax. 
I obtained it last autumn, but could not detect other structures 
in the same beds * 
D. Websteri was named by Hall forty years ago; if it be the 
same as D. flabelliforme or D. sociale, 1 for one am not disposed 
to take later names “made in Germany,” but contend we should 
maintain our oldest Nova Scotian name of D. Websteri. 
A consideration of dates shows that the Eel River fossils 
were reported on a year before Dr. Ami wrote his Synopsis, and 
it is hard to understand how their discovery influenced Dr. Ami 
AFTER he wrote his Synopsis. 
Nor can we cannot accept Dr. Ami’s conclusion, that the 
specimens of D. Websteri at McGill are the type specimeas. 
Hall named it, and Dr. Webster's collection of some two dozen 
slabs are in the Provincial Museum at Halifax. They show 
cellules, etc., and, I fancy, a second species. 
Any examination in criticism of the finding of Hall should 
be made of the large collection in the Halifax Museum, and at 
Wolfville, and not be restricted to the two specimens at McGill. 
* The specimen is now in the Provincial Museum at Halifax. 
