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Another crinoid locality was fomad at the vacant lots on Sussex 

 street below Messrs. Hamilton's offices, whei-e Heteworinus Canadensis, 

 Billings, a form closely related to H. simplex, Hall, was found in 

 abundance and in a good state of preservation. 



Utica Formatiox. — Additional reseai'ches wei'e carried on during 

 the past season in this formation, but the notes thereon are reserved for 

 a subsequent report. 



Post-Tertiary Deposits — (Marine, Fresh Water and Human 

 Remains). — In the Leda clay, Saxicava sand and fresh water marls of 

 the country adjoining Ottawa, as well as in the numerous and extensive 

 deposits of boulder drift, etc., a vast field of special enquiry is open to 

 the observer. In the Post-Tertiary history of our rocks we have to 

 hail a new era in its researches. At Casselman, Ont., where the Club 

 held one of its excursions, numerous archcaological specimens were 

 discovered in the shape oi pottery, hones, and other remains. Although 

 the })ottery was broken into bits ranging from lialf an inch to four 

 inches in diameter, still the various designs and patterns peculiar to the 

 tribes oi the great Algonquin family, who once inhabitei the eastern 

 portion of North A merica, are quite characteristic. 



The sherds were found buried, beneath the sod close by a young 

 hardwood forest on the eastern shore of the South Nation River, at the 

 foot of a rapid, to a depth ranging from thi-ee inches to two feet, mixed 

 with bones of beaver, bear and deer, remnants of the chase, together 

 with charcoal and ashes, all plainly indicating the existence of some 

 ancient village inhabited by a tribe of Indians whose customs and man- 

 ners were not unlike those who dwelt at Hochelaga at the foot of 

 Mount Royal when Cartier first landed, some three hundred years ago. 

 A (jo^uje and an adze had been found some seventeen years previously 

 by Mr. J. S. Castleman at the same locality, but no more researches had 

 been cai-ried on since that time in this treasury of archseological 

 remains until the Club's excursion there. The pottery remains, 

 together with the adze, gouge and bones, are at present in the Museum 

 of the Geological Survey. 



Mr. "Walter R. Billings notes that during the past season he has 

 examined the exposures of the Trenton formation on Division street, in 



