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related to Palasocyclus Rutoloides, one of the Echinus family; found 

 also in same horizon in the States, and figured in Dana's Manual, 

 3rd edition. The upper valve of a Crania (probably N. S.), may 

 also be noticed as occurring in our local Chntons, particularly since 

 I can find in no work I consulted that this family is recorded as 

 being hitherto obtained in this rock series. Species are found in 

 the Hudson River below and in the Niagaras above. 



We have learned from the Toronto papers, that the British 

 Association have accepted an invitation from some of the Professors 

 and gentlemen there interested in scientific matters, to visit that city 

 in August next. It is, we understand, the intention to ask the men 

 of science to devote a day to Hamilton and vicinity. If the state- 

 ment is true, would it not be as well for the Hamilton members and 

 civic authorities to endeavor to have that infamous clause of the 

 Dominion Railway Act rescinded while they are here. To welcome 

 scientific men from Great Britain and Ireland, if they venture to hunt 

 for organic remains in the most interesting portions of our rock ex- 

 posures, by prosecuting them as trespassers and tramps, seems rather 

 a singular way of displaying hospitality. " This is the only civilized 

 country in the world that endeavors to retard the progress of scie7ice" 

 said a gentleman from the States recently, when informed that we 

 were debarred by the Legislature of this progressive and enhghtened 

 Dominion, from pointing out the locality where colored Lingulae are 

 found. 



We do not presume to anticipate the steps the municipal author- 

 ities of Ontario may take in according the visitors a cordial reception 

 and warm welcome. Yet, subsequently, members of our Association 

 are likely to be placed in the humiliating position of being compelled 

 to inform our invited guests that we are unable to show them over 

 the places where our rarest organic remains are obtainable ; that 

 scientific research is looked upon in our Dominion as the pursuit of 

 some idle trespassers, who travel about on foot, instead of taking the 

 cars, thereby showing a most reprehensible example to the general 

 public. In the face of such a representation, will not the reception 

 accorded excite anything but contempt for the Federal representa- 

 tives, whose Railway Act restricts us to the very limited exposure of 

 the corporation and two private quarries at Hamilton, and the long 

 since abandoned ones at Grimsby, containing Dr. James Hall's Sil- 



