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known " Genera " for utterly unknown " species " or variety, 

 would be looked upon everywhere as an eggregious mistake. 

 As far as the City Museum is concerned, we may be permitted 

 to remark, it certainly attracted more attention to this 

 favored Niagara locality than even the most sanguine of the 

 few members of the Geological Section could ever have 

 expected. But fossils which hereafter the Dominion may 

 find impossible to obtain, we are compelled to send away 

 to places where such things undoubtedly are more 

 appreciated. To include in the intended catalogue the few 

 well known specimens common to Europe and the United 

 States, while omitting all supposed new or rare ones now 

 undergoing investigation by Professional Palseontologists, 

 can hardly be seriously entertained and could lead to very 

 great disappointment. Undoubtedly our Section must 

 consider it is at present uncalled for and premature. 



During the past Collecting Season (Spring, Summer and 

 Autumn inclusive) the Geological Section of this Association 

 forwarded to the British Musetim, in the old country, upwards 

 of 90 specimens from this favored locality alone, independent 

 of many more furnished to the Donmtimi Survey at Ottawa 

 and elsewhere. We are not in a position to claim more than 

 some at least may prove to be new to Science, and we may 

 well hesitate to accept the designated idea that any 

 contemplated catalogue will be final, which necessarily must 

 omit every recent acquisition our Section has brought to the 

 notice of the most competent men in Canada, the United 

 States and Europe. Such a catalogue as that may well 

 prove disappointing, not only to our Section of the Associa- 

 tion, but it would convey to others a false idea regarding a 

 matter we wish to establish, the long neglected Chert and 

 little known fossil, '' Fau?ta'' and ''Flora," of the Niagara 

 District. I feel satisfied the proceeding on the part of the 

 Council would be ill-advised, certainly under present 

 conditions, where probably three-fourths of our local 

 specimens are yet unnamed. I am not aware that the oldest 

 Section of the Hamilton Scientific Association (the Botanical) 



