60 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
acknowledged the receipt of 30 interesting specimens of Grap- 
tolite and fossil Sponges from the Niagara growth of rocks at 
Hamilton, Ontario. 
Prof. J. F. Whiteaves, Director General of the Geological 
Survey of Canada, acknowledged the recept of 16 parcels con- 
taining 180 specimens, also another lot of 30 and another of 
48 specimens, the last lot being composed mostly of fossil 
sponges from the Niagara chert beds; in all 244 specimens. 
Mr. James Douglas, Secretary of the Public Library Board 
of St. Catharines, on behalf of that board acknowledged the 
receipt during last year of a very interesting collection of fossil 
specimens from tke acting chairman of the Section, and inti- 
mated that the board was so pleased with the donation that to 
mark their appreciation of the gift, they had decided to havea 
special case made to hold the specimens and were going to 
place it in a conspicuous place in the Library. 
The published proceedings of the Smithsonian Institute of 
Washington, D. C., just issued for the year 1898, credits Col. 
C. C. Grant with having sent to the Institute 53 graptolites 
from the Niagara formation at Hamilton. 
Thus you will readily see that the Section has been busy 
during the past year in disseminating in a very practical way 
some knowledge of the geological records as revealed by the 
fossil illustrations sent to different parts of the world. 
This work of the Section has also brought into promi- 
nence the desirable fields of labor for the student of geology 
and collector of palzeontological specimens which lie so con- 
veniently to the City of Hamilton. 
As has been suggested by the acting chairman, in view 
of the fact that the Geological Section of the Hamilton Scien- 
tific Association has contributed more specimens than any 
other city to the Dominion Museum at Ottawa during the last 
three years, why should we not receive from the Federal 
Government an annual allowance to enable us to print for 
distribution the proceedings of the Hamilton Association in a 
larger volume and haveit fully illustrated? Also to enable the 
