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to-be-forgotten excursion to Besserer's Grove was held in search 

 of Pleistocene fossils, nodules, &c., in the nnarine clays of that 

 locality. Dr. Adams's geology class, at McGill, was in attend- 

 ance, and a number of local geologists were also present. 



Numerous and fine specimens of Mallotus villosus were 

 obtained, besides numerous fragments of plants, Equiseta, Popu- 

 lus balsaniifera, Fuai sdigitatus, Penhallow, besides moUusca • 

 Macovia fragilis, Saxicava rugosa, Natica affinis, and Leda 

 (Portlandia) arctica, Gray. Some of the undetermined plant 

 material has been laid aside for future examination by Prof. 

 Penhallow, of McGill University. 



In the foregoing volume of THE Ottawa Naturalist, 

 published during the season of 1896-97, and elsewhere, several 

 interesting papers were published or noted as bearing upon the 

 geology of Ottawa and vicinity, Prominent amongst these is a 

 very interesting paper on " The Geology along the Ottawa and 

 Parry Sound Railway," by Dr. R. W. Ells.* In this paper Dr. 

 Ells has described the leading geographical features of a new 

 tract of country that has been but recently opened to excur- 

 sionists and travellers, and we trust that this excellent contribu- 

 tion to the geological history of the eastern section of the Parry 

 Sound Railway will be followed by another upon the western 

 section, which no doubt includes great many points of paramount 

 interest both from an economic and a scientific standpoint, as 

 the rock-formations belong to what has been termed the great 

 " Archaean Complex." 



Principal Dresser's paper on the " Petrography of some of 

 the rocks of Chelsea, Que.," is also an important contribution to 

 the geological fund oT knowledge of that interesting series of 

 Archaean rocks associated with the old " Ottawa gneiss." 



H. M. Ami, \ , 



R. W. Ells, ^r Leaders. 



W. F. Ferrier, I 



^Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. X, No. 9, pp. 165-173, Ottawa, December, \i 



