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better material for the purpose had hitherto been discovered on this continent. As a 

 company is being formed to manufacture brick from these shales, it is hoped that soon 

 they will rank among the developed economic products of this Province. 



Mr. Sangster exhibited fine specimens of vitrified brick manufactured from these 

 shales. 



Mr. John Law, who spent some time among the Catskills, southern New York 



reported that veins of copper, also platinum, besides traces of gold and silver, had 

 been discovered in these regions. He exhibited specimens of drift boulders from this 

 location ; gneiss appeared to be the predominating material. He also exhibited a photo- 

 graph of a famous drift rock called Eagle Rock. He thinks that prospectors would 

 find it a favorable field for exploration. 



Mr. Goodburn visited Gait and reported as follows : 



The rocks at Gait are dolomite (in some cases pure) and belong to" the Guelph 

 group. They vary in colour, from a dirty yellow to a beautiful grey (the grey being 

 the lowest in the series), and are of a peculiar crystalline texture. They furnish excellent 

 building stones. The Guelph group varies here in thickness from 90ft. to 160ft. The 

 underlying mass is the Niagara group. The upper portions of strata are much broken 

 up, and contained many specimens of the Megalomus Canadensis. This bed was about 

 15ft. thick. The lower beds were quite compact, and also contained many fossils. One 

 Meg. Can. which I secured is perfect, six inches in length, and larger than any figured in 

 Nicholson's Palaeontology. I also found a very good specimen of Megalomus com- 

 pressus four inches long and a little over one inch in thickness, a portion of. the outer 

 spiral and the whole of the inner cast of a Murchisonia Loganii. The quarry whence I 

 obtained my specimens is near the Grand Trunk track, and about 200 yards from the 

 Grand River. 



The Chairman visited the oil fields at Dutton, Elgin Co., Ontario, and reported 

 that the pioneer company operating there had seven producing wells. 



Mr. Kirk reported on another new oil field situated in Sarnia Township, Lambton 

 Co., Ontario. One company operating there had thirty producing wells scattered along 

 a line about two miles in length. These produce from 15 barrels per day downwards. 

 They propose to thoroughly develop this tract, and sink a well every 200 feet. The 

 producing area is about one mile in width. Another compiny working in an adjoining 

 neighbourhood have very recently obtained some good wells, one of which pumps 25 

 barrels a day. The producing wells are all situated along anti-clinal, wnich, however, 

 does not appear at the surface, being deeply covered by clay. Oil is obtained here at a 

 depth of about 475 feet. The borings pass through clay 100ft., hard rock 15ft., shale 

 150 ft., upper lime 15 ft., shale 150 ft., lower lime and sandstone about 45ft. In order to 

 obtain oil each well must be torpedoed, the charge being from 20 to 50 quarts of nitro- 

 glycerine. These new oil fields seem to be a northwesterly extension of the petroleum oil 

 belt. The oil is found along a line trending northwest and southeast. 



Geo. Kirk, 



Secretary. 



THE REPORT OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH. 



The 215th regular and 25th annual meeting of the Montreal Branch of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario was held in the rooms of the Natural History Society of 

 Montreal, on May 10th, 1898. 



The following members were present : Messrs. H. H. Lyman (President), A. F. 

 Winn (Vice-President), E. T. Chambers, J. B. Williams, D wight Brainerd, L. Reford, 

 O. Stevenson, G. A. Moore, and L. Gibb ; visitor, Mr. M. Waring Davis. 



