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black, aud uot imfrequently mistaken for a Graptolite when 

 the rest of the Bryozooii presents a very faint impression on 

 the surface of the Chert. It seems difficult to account 

 satisfactorily for this singularh- exceptional instance. A few 

 other fossils, as far as the writer knows, yet undermined, 

 were discovered in an Indian corn field south of the (-orpora- 

 tion drain, close to the McVittie farm. One of the specimens 

 is circular in shape, aud very likely belongs to the class of 

 Bryozoons figured and described by the late Dr. Jas. Hall, of 

 Albany, under the head Ceramopora Bernicea, in a Geological 

 report of the New York State Survey. 



NIAGARA SPONGES AND GRAPTOI.ITES. 



Previous to the late collecting season the writer had little 

 expectation of ever again contributing except by chance any- 

 thing on the chief Silurian organic remains that would attract 

 palaeozoic attention to what my old friend, our President, A. 

 T. Neill, has truly designated as a favored locality, the claim 

 he expressed can hardly be disputed. 



L,oug before the Hamilton Museum was re-established, 

 ou what we hoped to be a more permanent basis, prior even 

 to the more important discoveries of Niagara Graptolites, 

 fossil sponges and Bryozoons, which are now attracting con- 

 siderable attention outside the Dominion, the late Rev. Pro- 

 fessor Wright and others noticed the numerous Clinton 

 organic remains wliich they were collecting from the States 

 being removed in order to expose for building and ornamental 

 purposes the Medina freestone bed rocks. These are no 

 longer quarried here owing to the thickness of the overlying 

 soil,, the removal of wliich entails too much expense. We 

 know unfortunately that such favorable conditions are un- 

 likely to occur here ever again. This is more to be regretted 

 since it appears impossible to replace many rare and a few 

 undescribed (Clinton fossils) which your "Ex Curator" 

 vainly sought for in the new cases. Even while we feel the 

 absolute impossibility of making the City Museum what was 

 intended, viz., a place to gttract attention to one of the 



