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the Barton beds extend? This question he was not yet able to 
answer satisfactorily, because the measures lies concealed in 
both easterly and westerly directions, but he was satisfied that 
they extended as far east as Stoney Creek because of evidences 
procured by one of the members of the section who had visited 
that locality. The section is kept in close touch with the prin- 
cipal museums of the world, as evidenced by the following com- 
munications received from E. R. Lankester, E'sq., Director of 
the British Museum of Natural History, directed to Col. C. C. 
Grant, being an acknowledgment of a number of fossils sent to 
the above museum : 
March 13, 1903. 
Dear Sir: I am directed by the trustees of the British 
Museum to convey to you the expression of their best thanks 
for the present mentioned on the other side, which you have 
been pleased to make to them. I have the honor to be, sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) EK. Roy LANKESTER. 
He enumerates the different specimens as follows, 68 
Paleozoic fossils from Ontario, Canada, viz.: 5 Plonite, 1 un- 
determined, 30 Coctintera and Bryozoa, 4 Brochpoda, 1 
Edrioasteoidia, and 9 Mollusoa. 
Also an acknowledgment from Prof. J. F. Whiteaves, As- 
sistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, acknow- 
ledging the receipt of fossils from Hamilton and vicinity, also 
one from Prof. J. M. Clark, State Palzentologist for the New 
York State Museum, acknowledging the receipt of fossils from 
the waterlime beds of the Barton series of rocks and the Nia- 
garas sent to him by Col. C. C. Grant. 
During the last term Dr. Ami, F. G. S., Dominion Survey 
of Canada, was made a corresponding member of the Hamilton 
Scientific Association, and we are pleased to note that the Royal 
Society in England had awarded the Rigsby medal to Dr. Ami 
for his valuable contributions to science. 
During the year the following papers were read before the 
Section by Col. C. C. Grant: 
