124 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 
ANNELID BURROWS, TRAILS, FUCOIDS, PLANTS. NO. IV. 
In a recent paper my remarks were confined chiefly to a few 
well-marked organisms obtainable here in our Silurian rocks. I en- 
deavored to show some reasons for not accepting the views enter- 
tained by several well-known paleeobotanists regarding their nature. 
I have so frequently expressed an opinion that the inferences were 
formed from mere fragments, poorly preserved, that it seems almost 
unnecessary to repeat the statement. It certainly would be more 
satisfactory, to me at least, to furnish specimens from Hamilton in 
order that my readers may see and judge for themselves. While 
the best preserved examples may be retained for the Redpath 
Museum, and the Geological Survey office, Ottawa, yet, no doubt, I can 
furnish others little inferior from duplicates in the cases of our. 
Museum in exchange for fossils we may require to complete the 
collection of others foreign to this locality. 
Whatever may be the final decision respecting the nature of the 
above named impressions one thing is certain, it would hardly be ac- 
cepted as altogether satisfactory if investigation is considered unneces- 
sary with respect to our local fossils. We would rather let them 
speak for themselves. Ina brief notice of “‘ Fossil Botany,” by H. 
Graf Zu Solms Laubach, 1891, it is stated by one of the contributors 
to Science, that the author is non-committal respecting Buthotrephis 
and its affinities, but he admits Arthrophycus to bea plant. A 
slight concession is better than none. Credner arrived at the same 
conclusion many years ago. The members of our Geological Sec- 
tion quite recently had an opportunity of examining for themselves 
numerous specimens of Arthrophycus in beautiful preservation at 
Grimsby, (some members of the Botanical Section of the Association 
were also present) yet not a single individual was found to question 
the organic nature of the remains, and more than one or two noticed 
how several of the stems folded over others below them. On the 
large blocks of sandstone lying at the foot of the quarries you may 
recollect how much we regretted our inability to remove some of the 
larger masses owing to the difficulty of conveying them from the 
ravine for transportation. Yet despite the obstacles which presented 
themselves, a fair collection was secured by members to enable them 
to judge for themselves whether such as were observed could by 
any possibility be referred to worm trails or crustacean tracks, 
to both of which they have been attributed. I am unable to un- 
