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the writer secured a straight, trumpet shaped (not curved) 
Graptolite. The branches are so close that with the naked eye 
it is difficult to determine its classification. In an upper blue 
building limestone bed, one of the quarrymen obtained a portion 
of the shattered material, revealing the surface, covered with ap- 
parently detached branches of a Graptolite, scattered irregularly 
around. This singular specimen is the third seen from the same 
horizon, under precisely similar conditions. Probably it was 
furnished, like ‘‘Graptolithus Pristis,’? and its family, with a 
floating dise, and the branches represent the arms. This dise, a 
soft, leathery material, must be very rarely preserved fossilized. 
In Anticosti, the writer found a limestone layer in which the 
arms of ‘‘G. Pristis,’’ generation after generation, were embedded 
‘by thousands; but this particular part was never observed there. 
The Webber quarry quite recently furnished me with a very 
large specimen oi ‘‘Dictyonema Retiformis.’’ It occurred in the 
upper blue building bed. Only a small portion presented itself, 
but the hammer fortunately revealed the entire form. 
NOTES GENERAL AND GEOLOGICAL. 
On several occasions recently, visitors at the Museum ex- 
pressed regret that we did not see a way here in Hamilton to unite 
‘the two apparently distinct Museums of the city. 
When the McInnes property (Dundurn Park) was purchased, 
several members of the Association were in favor of removing 
there, while others held it may be advantageous to possess a few 
rooms in the so ealled Castle itself for the display of duplicates 
of the various scientific sections of the far older institution, which 
to-day has been recognized, as one may perceive, from the numer- 
ous publications we receive from every part of the civilized world. 
The distance from the city itself must prove how unsuitable 
Dundurn is for a public museum. In the winter months the 
‘building is shut up altogether, and in summer many of the city 
families leave for the Beach and yarious other places. 
