( Extract from Transactions No. j, Ottawa Field- Naturalists' Club. 



CLASSIFIED LIST OF FOSSILS 



; 



FROM 



OTTAWA AND VICINITY. 



Hknry M. Ami, B.A., Second Assistant Paleontologist to the 

 Geological Survey of Canada. 



Published by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey. 



introduction. 

 In order to bring together in as systematic and compact a form as 

 possible the numerous species representing the fauna of the Paleozoic 

 and other rocks about Ottawa-heretofore scattered in the various 

 palaeontological publications of the Geological Survey of Canada and 

 chiefly from the pen of the late Mr. E. Billings-it has been deen.ed 

 advisable to catalogue the same. 



The list is a purely local one, and is intended merely as a basis for 

 future operations in this locality. 



Valuable assistance was obtained from the elaborate collections 

 made by ofiicers of the survey during years past, especially those of the 

 late Messrs. E. Billings and James Eichardson. Only those species 

 which are of local interest appear in the list. Tho number of these 

 has been considerably increased by the subsequent researches of Messrs 

 T. C Weston, Walter R. Billings and A. H. Foord, F.G.S., as also by 

 the evidence obtained after five seasons' collecting in this locality by the 



writer. 



The species are classed under the respective formations to which 

 they belong. 



It has been deemed neither requisite nor even advisable to refer 

 the species and genera to aub-orders and families, seeing that at present 



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