APPENDIX B. — REPORT OE GEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE XL- 
Report of the Geological Committee. 
The Geological Committee would submit the following 
report on the palaeontology of the Cambrian rocks at St. John. 
List of the Fossils found in the Cambrian rocks in and 
near St. John, by G. F. Matthew, M. A., F. R. S. C. 
As the study of the organic remains found by the author 
and others in the Cambrian rocks around St. John is now 
nearly finished, it is possible to give a list of these remains, 
showing the zoological standing of the species and the various 
horizons at which they have been found. 
In order to make the catalogue more useful for reference, 
a brief description is given of the rocks of the several levels 
at which the fossils were found. 
These rocks are divisable into two series, there being a 
break in the succession of the beds at the top of the Basal 
Series, wffiere its upper beds have been considerably worn to 
furnish material for the lowest beds of the next series, the 
St. John Group. 
Although we make two divisions in the lower series, we 
have not ventured to call them stages, as the faunas, so far 
as known, are not sufficiently distinct to make it advisable. 
We therefore regard this as one stage. 
Basal Series of rocks or Etcheminian Stage. 
The section at Hanford Brook is one of the clearest 
known for this series, and from the base upward is as follows 
(all the following sections are ascending): 
Thickness in feet.- 
Div. 1. a Coarse purplish red conglomerate, 60 
b Grey and purplish flags, shales and sandstones, 70 
c Purplish red sandstones with greenish layers, 240 
Div. 2, a Purplish red conglomerate, more friable than la, 35 
b Soft purplish red slates with greenish glauconite grains, 
the upper part firmer and more sandy ; greenish grey 
layers interspersed, especially toward the base,. . . 175 
c Purplish sandy shales, with a few bands of greenish 
shale, 300 
Space without exposures, 320* 
1.200 
