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‘Glacial, or Boulder Clay,’’ used for this deposit in Europe, was 
far more expressive and required no explanation as far as I could 
see. 
The great storm of the previous year on the Lake buried 
under sand much of the shingle along the lake shore; but in 
some places it had swept off this material which hitherto had 
concealed Fossiliferous Drift, not open to examination hitherto. 
Very likely I should eredit this circumstance with the discovery 
of many specimens and not attribute it to any marked improve- 
ment in eyesight.. 
Early in September, when I supposed the crops had been re- 
moved, I paid a visit to the field adjoining the Corporation Drain 
which in former years furnished members of the Section, and 
others, a large number of glaciated ‘‘flint-flake fossils;’’ too late 
for examination, for unfortunately I found it freshly ploughed; 
however, the adjacent field on the MeVitty farm afforded me 
some few Brachiopods and Bryozoons, which led me to imagine 
after all, I was enabled to detect specimens, even when colorless 
and partaking of the nature of the matrix itself. The flint-flake 
fossils are always difficult to distinguish unless the chert surround- 
ing is decayed. The field in question merely presented an odd 
bare patch here and there, being almost completely overgrown 
with clover and grasses, which rendered it exceedingly difficult 
to distinguish anything there. 
Tn order to ascertain the crops on the brow of the Escarpment 
towards the Albion Mills, the writer paid two visits to this local- 
ity about the middle of September and was pleased to find the 
large field beyond the orchard and bluff (his favorite ground for 
Niagara sponge sections) had been planted with beans, maize (in 
rows), potatoes, etc., this year. Now, all these crops are favor- 
able for collecting purposes. The Indian corn, when broadcast, 
is by no means so, and, unfortunately, one of the best places for 
collecting complete Sponges near the city bears a flourishing one 
of this sort at present. A collector would suppose that where the 
sections are numerous the entire forms of these fossils would be 
most abundant. It is not so, however; the contrary seems the 
