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FOSSILIFEROUS LOCALITIES NEAR HAMILTON, ONT. 
BY COL. C. C. GRANT. 
A few days before starting for Winona Park last summer, 
I received a letter from Dr. Ami, Assistant Palzeontologist of the 
Dominion Geological Survey, requesting information on the 
above subject, and in reply I stated that it would be furnished 
on my return to the city. I regret the matter quite escaped my 
recollection until recently, and although I believe what the 
doctor required would be found in scattered papers already 
published by our Association, we cannot expect officers of the 
Survey (overworked as they are) to wade through several years’ 
proceedings to acquire such information. Now as members of 
the Section who recently joined are necessarily unacquainted 
also with localities previously indicated for organic remains, it 
may be advisable to collect for reference what was formerly 
written into a smaller compass despite a disinclination to repeat 
a story already told. 
MEDINA SANDSTONE. 
The quarries to the east of Hamilton, lying close under the 
Niagara escarpment have been nearly worked out. One, how- 
ever, was reopened of late years at some distance, aud I have 
been informed there is reason to suppose the two near the city 
Reservoir which furnished me with Fucoids and other fossils 
formerly, would probably be again used for building purposes. 
If this can be relied on, a thin layer resting on a slight deposit 
of muddy shale lying between two sandstone beds of consider- 
able thickness should be investigated. It contains plants, 
corals, gasteropods, brachiopods, etc. The upper surface of a 
massive grey band layer in an abandoned quarry near the city 
afforded me a Stromatopora, while the under surface of another 
a little beyond displayed the only Orthoceras noticed in the 
