14 SILURIAN COLLECTIONS—HUNEYMAN,. 
Art. IIJ.— Notes oF EXAMINATION BY PROF, J AMES HALL, OF THE 
SILURIAN COLLECTIONS OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 
—By the Rev. D. Honryman, D.C. L, F. B.S. C.. 
BS. Se 
(Read January 10, 1887.) 
Pror. Hat's early contributions to the Silurian and 
Devonian Paleontology of Nova Scotia have formed the 
basis of all our accurate knowledge of the subject. In these 
he described, figured and named characteristic Silurian and 
Devonian fossils, and assigned them to their proper positions 
in the Silurian and Devonian systems. He has consequently 
been regarded as paramount authority on questions relating to 
this department of Paleontology. Our extensive collections, 
made since the publication of Prof. Hall’s work include almost 
all the fossils described by him, and a large number still un- 
described. Many of these have been examined and character- 
ized by Saiter and Barrande, (although not figured or described) 
and referred to their proper paleontological and geological 
positions; while others, not examined, have been identified 
and characterized by myself, and referred to their supposed 
geological horizons. No small controversy has arisen in con- 
sequence of the publication of our views in the Transactions of 
our Institute and elsewhere. As the end of all our investigations 
is a sincere desire after truth, I have often wished for what I 
a personal examination of my entire 
have at length obtained 
collections, as they are now arranged and displayed in our 
Museum, by an authority to which, as Sir Roderick I. Murchison 
would have expressed it, “ we are all disposed to bow.” 
I directed attention: I. To a Silurian collection from Cape 
Breton. This consists of the Brachiopods Lingulelle and the 
Trilobites Agnostus and Olenus, or Spherophthalmus alatus, 
Professor Hall agrees with me in referring these to the “ Upper 
Lingula Flags” of Wales, where the same forms occur, according 
