

Report of the Sectioii for the Year Endini 



To the President, Officers and Members of the Hamilion 

 Scientific Associatioii ;— 



GENTI.KMKN, — The nieiubei'S of the Geological Section 

 of the Hamilton Scientific i\.ssociatiou, in presentiiig this 

 report for the year ending May 14th, 1908, desire to ex- 

 press their pleasure at being able to state that substantial 

 progress has been made in the year just closed by the 

 section in the study of geology and in the collection of 

 fossil specimens peculiar to the diixerent rock formations 

 in this vicinity. An interesting discovery was made by 

 Mr. Horace Sayman of mineral tar, wliich he obtained 

 from an abandoned quarry, known as Carpenter's quarry, 

 on the Barton arid Glandford road, west of Dundas. 

 ThrouQ:h the indefatieible exertions of Col. C. C. Grant, 

 quite a large number of fossil remains have been collecte^^ 

 some of which have been placed in the museum of the 

 .association, among w^hich are some very fine specimens of 

 Graptolite obtained from tlje city quarries, w'hich no doubt 

 will prove to be when examined, new varieties, and very 

 probably, new species. Col. Grant lias received fifteen 

 letters from the Curator of the British Museum of Natural 

 History, London, acknowledging the receipt of more than 

 204 fossil specimen.s from tlie recks at Hamilton and 

 shingle on the lake shore at Winona and the Hamilton 

 Beach. Letters have also been received from the officers of 

 the Canadian Geological Survey, acknov/ledging tlie receipt 

 of fossil specimens for the Ottawa museum, and express- 



