THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 



THE haIvK=ye:arIvY report 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SKCTION 



OF THE 



HAMILTON ASSOCIATION, 



ENDING APEIL 36th, 1890. 



Hamilton, May 8th, 1890. 



The Section, in submitting this report, is pleased to notice the 

 active interest manifested in the work by the younger members. 

 Although the members have not, as formerly, devoted so much of 

 their time to the classifying, labelling and arranging of the large 

 number of specimens no\v^ in the possession of the Section, for 'the 

 reason that the specimens will require shortly to be moved to the 

 more commodious apartments in the new Library building, which 

 is now nearing completion, when a rearrangement will be necessary. 



The members, however, have not been inactive meanwhile. 

 Some, under the direction of our worthy chairman. Col. C. C. Grant, 

 have been working on the Barton beds as well as giving daily atten- 

 tion to the various quarries under operation in the Niagara forma- 

 tion. The Barton beds are highly fossiliferous, presenting occa- 

 sionally some new surprise, and what is always a source of gratifica- 

 tion to collectors, the specimens found are usually in a good state 

 of preservation. The various outcrops of rock in the vicinity of the 

 city of Hamilton place the geological workers here in an enviable 

 position. Dr. Spencer refers to it as the richest in fossil remains of 

 all the districts he has ever met with, the number of graptolites col- 

 lected from this district alone exceeds in variety and preservation 

 the combined product of all other places in Canada. The upper 

 beds of the Niagara supply us with many new forms of fossil sponges, 

 which Prof. Head, of Chicago, says are peculiar to this district, 



