NOTES ON THE LATE COLLECTING SEASON 



group named by Dr. Spencer, F.G.S.. Cannopora Walkeri, 

 which was formerly noticed as occurring attached as a 

 parasite to the upper surface of a Clinton Favosites Coral. 

 The writer was prevented from examining a portion of 

 two fields where a late crop of Indian corn and potatoes 

 had been removed, owing to an accidental injury to his foot. 

 He found in one case the place where he fully expected to 

 secure a few complete sponges, had been freshly ploughed 

 up. In the other instance, quite a large quantity of the 

 leaves of the crop removed had been left where it was, 

 which rendered it impossible to detect fossils, except 

 by chance on the surface. In other cases the farmers were 

 as busy in turning up the soil as the writer in hunting up 

 the specimens. 



NOTES. 



The writer learns that when some denounced the issue 

 of the Text Book on Physical Geography by authority, 

 in 1904, as an attempt on the part of Infidels or Agnos- 

 tics to heathenize the children of the High schools of 

 both sexes by teaching, through astronomy and modern 

 geology, principles of open infidelity, the matter was 

 brought to the notice of the Educational Board, apparently 

 by the Anglican Synod of Ontario, but it saw no reason for 

 suppressing and recalling the publication. 



Since calling your attentii^n to the address of Prof. 

 R. I^ankaster, as President of the Society in Great Britain 

 for the Advancement of Science, I find the King has con- 

 ferred a title on him, although an advocate of Modernism. 



The extract accompanying refers to the discovery of 

 the beautiful blue marble, named Sodalite, from Hastings, 

 Canada, a member of Feldspar family. Some time since a 

 gentleman showed me a specimen polished. The museum 

 should possess one also. 



