34 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 



LOCAL PAL^ONTOLOGICAL NOTES IN 

 CONTINUATION. 



BEAD BEFORE THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE HAMILTON 

 ASSOCIATION. 



BY COL. C. C. GRANT. 



When the Secretary of this Association suggested that a com- 

 plete Ust of Local Organic Remains was much required, and that it 

 would be of interest, probably, to some outside the immediate neigh- 

 borhood who may wish to ascertain whether the fossils discovered 

 here differ from others found elsewhere in similar Silurian rocks, 

 while I admit the request was very natural on his part, we must feel 

 the difficulty of compliance, since our Hamilton fossils were scatter- 

 ed far and wide before the Museum here was established, and no 

 record kept of the specimens so distributed. All that possibly can 

 be done now is to add to Dr. Spencer's Catalogues (the only ones 

 published already), specimens since obtained or others which have 

 not quite passed from recollection. 



The Niagara Graptolites and Hexactinnelid Sponges of Hamil- 

 ton have attracted no little attention outside the Dominion. As 

 regards the former we may be permitted to mention an extract taken 

 from the Ottawa Naturalist, written by Dr. Ami, Dominion Geolog- 

 ical Staff, viz. : " Dr. R. Gurley, in the Jour?ial of Geology, Chicago, 

 gives an interesting list of the species of Graptolites of North 

 America, and in this list are included several species of Graptolites 

 (Canadian) from various formations and localities which are new to 

 science." Dr. Ami thinks that there is no country in the world 

 which can boast of so many and so well preserved specimens of 

 Graptolites as Canada. Since Dr. James Hall's splendid work on 

 the Graptolites of the Quebec group, in 1864, several new forms 

 have been discovered in the lower Province by Dr. Ami, and other 

 officers of the survey. Indeed, it is not improbable that some of us 

 may be compelled to modify our views yet regarding the culmination 

 of the family at a later period in our Niagaras. The two last boxes 



