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NOTES. 



The singular property Crania possesses of adapting the shells 

 to the objects upon which they are cemented have always been of 

 much interest. You may well suppose this property adds con- 

 siderably to our difficulty when endeavoring to compare a valve with 

 one already described and figured. All the specimens found in the 

 glaciated Niagara chert here were upper valves with a single excep- 

 tion, and even that flattened lower ventral valve was unattached like 

 the rest which came under observation. In no instance was a valve 

 contracted, elongated or distorted. Like the Cornulites, it is quite 

 possible the Brachiopbds were cemented to foreign substances which 

 decayed and disappeared. The shells occasionally differ but little 

 in shape from the Orbiculoidea, and are not phosphatic. A living 

 one dredged from off the coast of Norway not very many years ago 

 was described. It was stated to be black in color. This corre- 

 sponds with one in the Clinton series, and was an omission on the 

 writer's part when referring, at a late meeting of the Section, to some 

 rare, little or unknown organic remains of the series. A specimen 

 was placed in the upper case of the Museum, and a second was 

 also obtained at the same place attached to a Flustra apparently. 



Since our last meeting we forwarded by request to Prof. T. R. 

 Jones, the well-known English Paleontologist, a box of the charac- 

 teristic Silurian and Cambro-Sil. fossils of the district. A friend of 

 his, Col. Taylor, who kindly conveyed the packages to London, 

 states : " On my arrival in town I called on the Professor, who 

 " expressed himself as charmed with the collection." It contained 

 some slabs from the ancient and modern beaches, with colonies of 

 the minute Crustacean Leperditia. 



A visitor to the Royal Museum in Ireland mentions that " the 

 "fossils from Hamilton, Ont., are separated, have a place by them- 

 " selves, and are much admired." Smaller parcels of organic 

 remains from this locality were also forwarded to the Dominion 

 Geological Survey Office, Ottawa, or presented to Hamilton 

 residents. 



