Report of Geological Section 
To the President, Officers and Members of the Hamutton 
Association :— 
The Geological Section of Hamilton, in presenting 
this, the Annual Report, wish to place on record the high 
appreciation of the work accomplished on behalf of the Sec- 
tion by the veteran collector and curator, Col. C. C. Grant. 
His efforts on behalf of the Section have been unceasing, 
and he has accomplished much, not only asa paleontologist 
and geologist of this vicinity, but his observations as a 
topographist are valuable, inasmuch as he has directed the 
attention of the property owners on the lake shore to the 
inroads made annually upon their possessions by the 
elements. His notations respecting the shitting of the 
shore line should lead to definite and concerted action by 
the owners to resist in some degree this encroachment upon 
their property. 
The Geological Section has made considerable progress 
during the season. A number of large specimens have 
been sent to different parts of the world, embracing Grap- 
tolites, Bryozoons, Lamellibranchs, Corals and Sponges, 
etc. The British Museum of Natural History has received 
a large number which have been duly acknowledged by 
Prof. Long, also the Dublin Museum, Ottawa Museum, 
and Albany Museum. Some of these specimens are new 
to science. Correspondence has been received from Ottawa 
stating that they were having new cases made and a re- 
arrangement of the specimens from Hamilton. 
There have been added also to the Hamilton Associa- 
tion Museum quite a number of fossil sponges and sponge 
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