224 J. F. Whiteaves—Primordial Fossils from Newfoundland. 
certain distinctions, so that their apparent value in the scheme 
exceeds their absolute value in nature; that names and groups 
are, in some degree, matters of usage, of comity, and of con- 
venience, we may well pause before we precipitate the incon- 
veniences of unsettling a long established and generally received 
classification, especially if our substitute only accentuates 
another set of distinctions of no greater absolute value than 
the former. Unless there is a decided preponderance of evi- 
sylvania, and Western New York” (2d Geological Survey of 
a., 1874, i,) where this opinion is announced, no distinct line 
of argument in its behalf is indicated. The local red color of 
the Bedford is of such small significance that I cannot believe 
that bad any weight in the mind of so experienced a geologist. 
The Cuyahoga, Berea, Bedford and Cleveland, including the 
few feet of limestone under the latter, constitute a compact and 
natural group, holding substantially the same fauna throughout. 
ope to show this more in detail in a subsequent paper on the 
vertical distribution of the fossils of this group. Then again, the 
fossils of the Cleveland shale, at the bottom of the series, are of 
decidedly Carboniferous types. These facts constitute a sufli- 
cient reason for retaining the Cuyahoga sub-group in the Carbon- 
iferous, whatever may be done with the rest of the Waverly. 
- XXIIL—On some Primordial Fossils from Southeastern 
Newfoundland; by J. F. Wurreaves, Paleontologist to the 
Geological Survey of Canada. 
__ DURING the summer of 1874, Mr. T. C. Weston, of the Cana- 
dian Geological corps, spent a few days in collecting Primordial 
and Conception Bays, Newfoundland, on behalf of Mr. A. 
Murray, Director of the Geological Survey of that Jsland. 
