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" On a Species of Goniograptus from the Levis formation, Levis^ 

 Quebec." By Henry M. Ami, F.G.S. Can. Rec. Sc. Vol. Ill, 

 No. VII, p. 222. 



In this paper the writer records the discovery in America of a genus 

 of graptoUtes which was hitherto known only trom " the Llandeilo 

 flags of the Bendigo goldfield, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia." Prof. 

 McCoy had described the Victorian species as Graptolithus {Didynio- 

 graptus ) Tlmreaui, and suggested the generic term Goniograptus for its- 

 reception at some future date. Prof. Lapworth soon recognized the 

 validity of this genus. No specimens or other species of this genus 

 were found until 1866, when Mr. T. C. Weston obtained the 

 first American examples from the black graptolitic and lingulifei-- 

 ous beds in the cutting on the I. C. R. 1560 paces below the 

 Lower Levis and Quebec ferry. The Canadian examples of the Gonio- 

 graptus cannot be specifically separated from the Australian species. 

 G. Thureaui, McCoy, although they show a new generic feature in the 

 presence of a disc or membranaceous wing-like expansion clasping the 

 stolons. The varietal designation Goniograptus Thureaui, var. Selivyni,. 

 has been suggested for the Canadian representative of the species, inas- 

 much as Dr. Selwyn was the first to discover graptolites in Australia 

 (1856), which determined the age of the gold reef bearing slates of Vic- 

 toria. 



J. F. 

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EXCURSION TO CASSELMAN. 



Upwards of thirty availed themselves of Mr. Craig's kind invita- 

 tion to visit his farm on the Nation River, at the Ox-bow near Cassel- 

 man, on August 8th. Arrangements were made with the Canada 

 Atlantic Railway to let the party off at this point, and take them up 

 again there in the evening, a great convenience to those who wished to 

 spend the day in the immediate vicinity of the farm. The majority did 

 so, and found it a most delightful spot, full of cool retreats from thfr 

 fierce noonday sun, and teeming with animal and vegetable life in its 

 most intei^esting forms. Many rare specimens in the various branches^ 

 of natural history were collected or observed during the day. Some 



