HAMIIvTON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 146 



Remonstrance Respectfully Submitted to 

 the Council, with Additional Notes. 



Mead Before the Hamilton Scientific Association, 

 March 22nd, 1907. 



BY COL. C. C. GRANT. 



Ill the Proceedings of the Hamilton Scientific Associa- 

 tion recently published, we find it stated that it was intended 

 to prepare a catalogue of the contents of "the City Museum." 

 On the part of the Geological Section, I beg most respect- 

 fully to submit that such a proceeding would be exceedingly 

 premature. We claim that the Silurian organic remains 

 discovered here are not only incomplete in the cases as yet, 

 but the greater part of recent acquisitions are more or less 

 unknown and as yet undescribed. Even the Niagara 

 Graptolites, to which Dr. Spencer first called attention (now 

 in the Redpath Museum at Montreal), have only been replaced 

 in a few instances, and several others in our upright cases are 

 still undescribed and unnamed. 



Although we have heard that the large collection of 

 Graptolites from our local rock in the Smithsonian Institute 

 was to be handed over to New York State for description, 

 a long period m&y elapse before we learn anything regarding 

 them. 



Independent of that collection, more recently the Council 

 of our vScientific Association figured in our Proceedings, 

 yearly, a considerable number of Hydrozoas, all probably 

 new to science, and, as strangers remarked, unusually well 

 preserved. None of the specimens in question are named, 

 although the Genera, to which they belong, was mentioned 

 (erroneously in one instance), for the figure represented, as a 

 small DeitdrograptHs displayed the connecting bars in the 



