NOTES ON THE LATE COLLECTING SEASON 



late Prof. E. Chapman, of Toronto University, informed 

 me it was identical with one thus named in Europe. A 

 second slab was obtained from it witli several others im- 

 bedded, but onh^ a fragment was extracted. A third slab 

 revealed specimens of a Bryozoon, which represents perhaps 

 a Cambro-Sil (Eichenalia). One I sent to the Dominion 

 Survey Office at Ottawa, expressing this view. 



GRIMSBY. 



During my stay at Winona during the past summer, 

 only one visit was paid to the above mentioned locality, 

 although another was intended to ascertain the possibility 

 of making a fine specimen of the large Arthroph3XUS Plar- 

 lani, detached from the upper Clinton baud since last year, 

 sufficiently portable for conveyance to the railway station. 

 No crinoids were obtained, but I returned to the camp with 

 some interesting Niagara shale slabs, holding well-marked 

 Bryozoons, plates of Car3^ocrinus Dictyonella, together 

 with two good specimens of the small Arthrophycus, and 

 another which ma}' be an intermediate variety perhaps. I 

 failed to extract a remarkably fine Platyceras, a shell which 

 appears to be exceedingl}^ rare in our local Niagara rocks, 

 and which seems to be frequently found in the Niagaras in 

 the States. A large Platyostoma, under the hammer, got 

 lost among brushwood. I also failed to discover it, unfor- 

 tunately. 



Disappointed in securing any well-preserved sponges, 

 or even sections, with few exceptions, after the snow had 

 disappeared, I thought it would meet the wish of the Geo- 

 logical Section to devote a separate chapter to the fossils 

 discovered later in autumn when the crops were gathered 

 in. As far as he can see, j^our collector has no other rea- 

 son for departing from his intention in former years, where 

 the whole season's collection was submitted without any dis- 

 tinction. Perhaps at a future time members may feel in- 

 clined to join the section, who maybe prevented from doing 



