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Notes Geological aivd Antiquarian 



By CoL C. C, Grant, 



May 8, igo6. 



Mr. Schiller, late Curator of the city Museum, now residing at 

 Rochester, has received information that the large collection of 

 Hamilton-Niagara graptolites in possession of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitute at Washington was about to be handed over to the New 

 York State Surve}^ for description. A few of the old members of 

 the Association may recollect that this collection was about to be 

 described many years ago by Dr. Gurley, whose sight unfortun- 

 ately failed when a few only were figured. The writer thinks 

 there are about 300 or more specimens in Washington. 



No account has been kept of the number of graptolites subse- 

 quently forwarded to the British Museum. They represent a large 

 number of new species no doubt, quite distinct from any previously 

 found here. The City Museum (and the Redpath in Montreal, 

 perhaps) has others as yet undescribed. " Hamilton fossils are 

 everywhere in great demand," remarks Mr. Schuler. The ones he 

 took from this country to the States will probably be described by 

 Prof. R. Ruedmann, who has recently described a very large num- 

 ber of the family from the lower Silurian rocks in the States. The 

 plates are not given in the cogy of the Report which the Director- 

 General of the New York State Survey kindly sent me. The new 

 species (about from 16 to 20, perhaps) are named, but not de- 

 scribed yet. The professor also in addition recognizes many al- 

 ready known to Hall, Nicholson, Lapworth, outside the States. 



A parcel forwarded to the British Museum on the 3rd of April 

 contained a very fan^like Ivichenalia claimed as a new species, also 

 a chert Stromatopora, which was pointed out as differing internally 

 from 2i\\y known to the writer in Clinton, Niagara or Guelph beds. 



