72 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 
REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
To the President, Officers and Members of the Hamilton Association : 
The Section, in submitting their report for the year ending 
May 11th, 1894, desires to intimate that, although the usual interest 
in the work has been maintained by the members, there has been a 
slight falling off in the attendance of visitors. This apparent lack 
of interest by the general members of the Association can in some 
measure be accounted for when we consider the reason given, that 
is, ‘‘ that the papers read are too technical to be interesting to one 
who is not fully acquainted with the science ; but this objection can 
be fully met when we consider the object of the different sections of 
the Association, which is to inculcate correct ideas and infoimation 
in regard to the various branches of science taken up by the differ- 
ent sections. The earnest student of nature should hail with delight 
the opportunity offered to him of the privilege of being benefitted 
by the experience and riper knowledge of those who have devoted 
much of their time, energy and talents upon a subject which they un- 
tiringly pursue with so much pleasure and satisfaction. ‘They have 
learned to read the great pages of the book of nature, and in the 
study of those papers they rise to a higher contemplation and a 
fuller appreciation of the irsurroundings, whether it be in the loneli- 
ness of the desert, the vast rolling prairies, or the rich wilds of the 
forest. They will always meet with one or more of the scientific 
studies to engage their attention. So that technical phraseology 
should not stand in the way of acquiring useful knowledge and 
interesting information. 
The Section, fully aware of this objection, has endeavoured to 
meet it, and our worthy Chairman has referred to it in one of his 
papers, when he claims to have adopted the popular phraseology so 
far as can consistently accord with the dignity of the subject under 
discussion. In October last the Chairman received a request from 
Prof. Charles D. Watcott, of Washington, D. C., for all the varieties 
of graptolites found near Hamilton, so that as complete a list as it 
