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securing as large, if not a larger, amount of specimens than 

 usual ; and, strange to say, in the very places where you 

 would least expect to find them, in clover and grass fields. 

 The green food for the cattle was not so plentiful as in former 

 years. The cows laid bare the crops almost to the roots, and 

 exposed a very large quantity of glaciated flint-flakes, which, 

 under other circumstances, must have escaped observation. 

 This enabled the collectors to turn over and examine the 

 under surfaces of a very large quantity of material. The 

 non-fossiliferous Chert flakes were placed in heaps on the 

 head-lands — a practice followed for many years, which saves 

 future labor. 



Since Professor Bresler, of Washington, described and 

 named the new Bryozoons from Hamilton, many more have 

 been secured here. In one day alone I brought away from a 

 meadow-field, and another on the opposite side of the corpor- 

 ation drain, five specimens of Dr. Jas. Hall's Genera 

 Liche?ialia ; some were new species, probably 4 Ptilodiciyas, 

 two of which I had not found previously. The outer 

 ornamental marking is unfortunately absent, while the form 

 is well preserved and about an equal number of CladoporcB. The 

 upper or glaciated portion of our local Chert is particularly 

 rich in this class of fossils, whose position as a coral, I 

 believe, remains yet undetermined, although classified as such 

 by many leading Palaeontologists, since Dr. Parke, of 

 Toronto University, informed the writer, he found some 

 '^ new species" in a collection from Hamilton. Many more 

 were obtained, some of which are now in " The British 

 Museum," and others we can place in the hands of any one 

 who takes an interest in and cares to describe an interesting 

 but little known family of organisms. The internal appear- 

 ance of these Silurian remains, collected by scores in the 

 glaciated Chert beds here, assuredly would lead to coral 

 classification. But on pointing out some years ago to Dr. 

 Ami, of the Dominion Geological Survey, what I believed 

 then to be the only specimen which ever displayed an outer 

 skin, where pores apparently were absent, he called attention 



