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twenty or more small parcels were forwarded to the Dominion 
Geological Survey Office, Ottawa. No fossils along the lake 
shore, to the east of Winona Park, attract the attention of 
even the casual visitor so much as the numerous Monticulipo- 
roids. Some are unusually large for this class, as you may 
perceive from a few selected for an upper case in the Museum. 
Much difference of opinion still exists regarding their classifica- 
Home| dher late Dr.) Ho) Alleyne Nicholson) (states °° their 
zoological affinities are yet doubtful. In many of their 
features they show marked relationship with the Ac¢nozoa 
generally, and with the A/cyonaria particularly, while in others 
they approach the Polyzoa.” On the other hand, Prof. G. B. 
Simpson, a well-known authority on this continent, places 
them with corals, thereby differing from Rominger and others. 
Although few new fossils were collected during the season 
along the lake shore, some rather rare ones were obtained. 
Perhaps the finest is a specimen ot Cypricardites (Cyrtodonta of 
the late Professor Billings). Until I compared it with the 
figure and the description I imagined it might prove to be the 
Cyrtodonta Hind?, named from its discoverer and found near 
Toronto, and which the paleontologist stated was the only one 
known to him. It does not apparently agree either with that 
or any member of the family from the Hudson River rocks of 
Anticosti, and probably may be considered a new species. 
Another interesting fossil of the drift may prove to be the 
Conularea Gracilis—Hall—of the United States Trenton beds. 
Without the original or its correct figure it would be unsafe to 
rely on a description at any time. For the same reason one 
may hesitate to name a Pleurotomaria, a Modiolopsis with a 
beak like JZ. Masuta—Conrad (the latter was transmitted to 
Ottawa in one of twenty-two small parcels received since my 
return to Hamilton). Every year the hunting ground for drift 
fossils becomes more restricted, as buildings are erected in the 
city on the ancient lake beach or ridge which runs through 
Hamilton. Even the road at the Desjardins Canal is now 
closed, and the material for its repair is no longer required, 
which was formerly obtained from the overhanging cliff. A 
