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of the Association, extracted what I believe to be a new sea 
plant. It certainly bears a very marked resemblance to the 
Clinton Graptolite (Retiolztes Venosus), but the branchlets are 
more horizontal, longer and somewhat drooping at the extremi- 
ties, not black, but the stained impression can be easily dis- 
tinguished in the matrix. The discoverer of this interesting 
specimen presented it to the Museum. The writer, a little be- 
fore this discovery, found in the same material which had been 
dumped into the Hancock quarry adjoining, the transverse 
section of the expanded portion of a very large segment of 
Professor Ulrich’s Bryozoon Sceptroporafacula, which is now in 
the Redpath Museum, Montreal, together with a specimen of 
Schizotreta ovalis from the Niagara limestones of the same 
place. Both fossils appear to be unnoticed in Canada previ- 
ously. 
The Niagara Chert beds and limestones this season (zz 
situ) were rather disappointing, but the old reliable field at the 
corporation drain made ample amends for this deficiency, as you 
may perceive, perhaps from the collection submitted for inspec- 
tion which represents merely a portion of the specimens obtained 
from what we have named ‘‘ The Glaciated Chert Beds.” It 
may be necessary here to state the beds so-called represent 
about eight feet of the Niagaras at the brow of the escarp- 
ment near the city, which disappeared during ‘‘ The Great Ice 
Age,‘‘ but may be seem at the rock cutting on the railway a 
little beyond the resevoir. Eastward of the bluff which over- 
hangs the Grand Trunk Railway (now closed to scientific re- 
search) you may notice a farm house with a young orchard. The 
field beyond the latter has for many years been a favorite hunt- 
ing ground of mine for chert sponges and sections; in fact, it is 
where the late Dr. James Hall was informed by the writer we 
would probably find many specimens in the place I pointed out. 
However, as he seemed to be incredulous in the matter, and 
probably entertained doubts regarding his companion’s sanity, 
it was considered necessary to explain the reason for this asser_ 
tion with which he seemed satisfied. The two fields beyond 
were clear of brushwood and brought into cultivation within 
