138 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 



REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE HAM- 

 ILTON ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR ENDING 

 MAY 7TH, 1896. 



The section, in submitting this their annual report, desire to 

 state that steady progress has been made in advancing the interests 

 of the section. 



That the few members who have met from year to year and 

 carried on the work, have reason to be proud of the position to 

 which the section has attained among sister societies who make 

 geological work their aim and study. Last year we referred to the 

 subject of fossil sponges of the Niagara formation, and alluded to it 

 as being the means of drawing the attention of scientific men to the 

 almost inexhaustible stores of this particular fauna, and that the 

 section was credited with three new genera and seven new species, 

 with a probability that these numbers would be increased as the 

 work of examining the specimens proceeded. This year, through 

 the persistent efforts of Col. C. C. Grant, the section has again been 

 brought into prominence. The very large number and variety of 

 the graptolites obtained from the Niagara rocks at Hamilton have 

 attracted the attention of eminent scholars, among whom is Prof. R. 

 Gurley, of Washington, D. C, who is busy preparing a work on the 

 Graptolites of North America, and who has from time to time asked 

 that specimens be sent to him so that the work will contain as com- 

 plete a list as possible, properly illustrated and described, of the 

 fossil graptolites of North America. Col. Grant has sent a very 

 large number to Prof R. Gurley during the past year, and we doubt 

 not that this locality will be well represented in the work. 



There is yet another source from which the section can wiew 

 with some satisfaction the appreciation by outsiders of the result of 

 our patient endeavors to keep our section before the world as an in- 

 stitution worthy of the Hamilton Association. This new avenue 

 is the result of a personal visit to our museum of Prof. Schuchert, 

 of the Washington Museum, D, C, who has now under preparation 



