A Few Hints On Local Fossil 
Collecting Here. 
BY C. C. GRANT. 
Read before the Hamilton Association April 2nd, 1909. 
HE geology of the district has been so frequently 
written about during the past forty or fifty years by 
professionals and amateurs, that one finds it impos- 
sible to say anything new on the subject. 
However, as we have had many additional members of 
late added to our Association, and, as we hope some may 
feel inclined to join our Section, now sadly reduced by 
death and removal from the city, perhaps you will excuse 
the repetition of a subject already pretty well ‘‘ threshed 
out,’’ by permitting me to point out once more the places 
where Silurian organic remains are likely to be obtained, as 
well as a few remarks which may be found useful. 
Since the wooden bridge across ‘’ the Desjardine Canal”’ 
was closed to the public, I have not been to the Burlington 
Height Cliff on the opposite side. From the heaps of stone 
there, as well as from boulders extracted from the ancient 
‘“Lake Iroquois Beach,’’ well preserved Trenton and 
Hudson River fossils were obtainable. It was there also 
that the Rev. Hartley Carmichael discovered an imperfect 
gasteropod, still retaining a portion of the original nacreous 
lustre in a lower Silurian boulder holding a Trenton fossil 
in addition. 
‘“Medina’’ and ‘‘ Clinton’’ rocks and their respective 
remains appeared to be rare in the Beach, but it was from 
a portion of it that the late A. EK. Waiker, President of the 
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