2 2 JOURNAL AND PROCKEDINGS. 



Sir W. Dawson, when in London a few years ago, described and 

 figured several of the organic remains from Hamilton, Ont. More 

 recently, I understand, the Toronto Globe gave a brief account of 

 another paper in which the grand old Canadian geologist calls atten- 

 tion in the motherland to some others obtained since from this 

 neighborhood. A very large quantity of drift and boulders was 

 deposited on the lake shore about a mile east of Winona Park. The 

 land there is sHghtly sloping, and merely a few feet abOvC the surface 

 of the lake now. The mottled red and white sandstones of the 

 " Clinton Upper Red Band," of the Grimsby ravine and quarries, 

 leads me to suppose that some at least of this material was brought 

 down by river floods, conveyed by lake currents and ice perhaps to 

 the point in question. This current along the southern lake shore, 

 alluded to in a paper by Mr. VanWagner, Stoney Creek, hardly 

 admits of disputation. I have noted it experimentally at Winona 

 when the water was perfectly calm, and also when the wind was actually 

 blowing from an opposite direction. The granites, greenstones or 

 other igneous boulders are not uncommon in the " Erie or boulder 

 clay." The Lake Ontario itself is gradually gaining on the land at 

 Winona Park, more so than is generally supposed, and if unchecked 

 the encroachment may surprise many who believe it a trifling matter, 

 not likely to occur for many years yet, nor in our time. The 

 limestone shingle in many places along the lake shore is exceedingly 

 tough under the hammer, and it is by no means an easy matter to 

 extract the fossils uninjured, yet occasionally you find exceptions as 

 in a large slab containing numerous generations of the Trenton 

 Bracbeopod, " Leptaena Sericea," found also in the Hudson River or 

 Bala beds. I cannot find in the Pal?eontological works I consulted 

 any reference to a species of this shell, a variety perhaps, with a 

 shorter hinge line. It usually occurs at least on a different layer. 

 It bears some resemblance to L. transversales, of the Clintons, pre- 

 senting however, a more flattened appearance, which may be due to 

 pressure. The keeled and sculptured Cyrtolites Ornatus (Conrad ?) 

 L. Sil. Europe also occurs in a hard limestone, together with num- 

 erous casts of Murchisonea GraciUs ; it proves difficult to extract. 

 It seems strange to find it so frequently associated with the other 

 Gasteropod. While we added a few specimens to our collection of local 

 drift fossils recently, the Geological Section must admit it is still very 



