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tiou that we concluded it would be wiser to await the action of the 

 winter frost, which assuredly must bring it down sooner or later. 

 Even then, I fear, it will prove impossible to remove it. The plant 

 was on the under surface of the thick sandstone layer. Contrary 

 to expectation, on the writer's first visit to Grimsby it remained in 

 the old place undisturbed. However, on the second visit it was 

 found lying at the foot of the cliff after heavy rains. Although an 

 exceedingly fine specimen of the large fucoid, Arthropliyais Har- 

 laiii, I discovered a still more remarkable one concealed by with- 

 ered leaves and bushes lower down on the sloping debris. It is 

 considerably larger than the one first pointed out by Mr. Schuler. 

 Even that I fear is loo heavy for removal. 



In a former paper published by the Council of the Association, 

 the writer stated the upper green Clinton band at the Grimsby 

 quarries held at least three distinct species or varieties of Conrad's 

 fucoid, which Dr. James Hall subsequently re-named Artlirophycns. 

 The}' are represented on distinct layers with partings of soft shale 

 between. Could the plant have degenerated on passing up from 

 the Medina Sandstone beds, where it was first di.scovered in New 

 York State to the sedimentary rocks of the upper Clinton, some 70 

 feet above, and then resumed a similar appearance to what it orig- 

 inally presented ? 



On the writer's first visit to Grimsby in June the heavy rain 

 forced him to return to the camp before he completed his examina- 

 tion of the more di.stant quSrries, which frequently afforded us 

 specimens of that singular little brachipod, Dictyonella reticulata 

 (Hall). No doubt Prof. Scuchert, in Tlie Fossil Brachipoda Amer- 

 ica, has good reasons for separating it from tlie eicJivaldia of Bill- 

 ings, the late Palaeontologist of the Canadian Geological Survey. 

 Perhaps Rhyjichonella reticulata of the former had priority of de- 

 scription. Hitherto we were under the impression the brachipod 

 in question was confined to the most distant quarry, where Mr. 

 Schuler obtained several, but the last one I found was discovered 

 in the Niagara shale of another, and I forwarded it in a package 

 addressed to the British Museum, England. As some consolation 

 for the wetting received I succeeded in securing a very fine medium 

 sized arthrophyciis, the only one now in my possession, which I was 

 very anxious to obtain. 



