30 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION 
OF 
THE HAMILTON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 
For the term ending May, 1902. | 
To the President, Officers and Members of the Hamilton Scientific 
Assoctation : 
The Section has much pleasure in submitting this, its annual 
report, feeling assured that an advance has been made respecting the 
acquirement of a better knowledge of the rock system which is ex- 
posed in the neighborhood of Hamilton, and also of the fossil fauna 
peculiar to the different rock formations which go to make up that 
system. 
That indefatigable member, Col. C. C. Grant, has devoted a 
good deal of his time searching for the eastern limit of the Guelph 
formation, with the object of discovering where it rests upon the 
beds known to him as the Barton beds, and whether the passage from 
the Upper Niagara to the Guelph formation shows any distinct de- 
posit line, or a well marked gradation from one to the other. He 
has not yet discovered an outcrop which reveals the points which he 
is in search of. 
The work of collecting fossil specimens has been carried on by 
several members of the Section with considerable success. Some 
new varieties have been found among the shingle from the Hudson 
River rocks (more recently named the Cambrio-Silurian), which lie 
strewn on the lake shore at Winona, the Beach and Burlington 
Heights, and in the quarries on the face of the escarpment. Col. 
C. C. Grant has sent quite a large number of fossils to different 
