124 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Geological Survey* upon the age of the Foraminifera which I 
had found in the jasper and chert pebbles of the Bonaventure 
beds. At my request these fossils were studied and identified by 
Dr Rufus M. Bagg and his determinations were printed in the 
Fifteenth Annual Museum Report, 1921. These determinations 
were necessarily based on thin sections and the author frankly 
admitted that they could only be approximate. The interest 
attached thereto was primarily the discovery of Foraminifera in 
this Gaspé series, which was before unknown to us, and secondarily 
the apparent evidence that they actually do represent the exist- 
ence at the early date at which these cherts were formed (prob- 
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ably Ordovician or Cambrian) of genera, many of which are 
with difficulty distinguishable from forms now living. Of all 
the forty-four species identified by Doctor Bagg, it is pointed 
out by Mr Sherlock that thirty-seven are recorded as still extant. 
He also emphasizes the fact that eighteen have hitherto been 
known as found first in the Trias and this large proportion of 
itself threw out an intimation that the Bonaventure rocks were 
of Triassic or later age. In view of the known existence and 
presumable continuity of this red rock deposition further 
south into the Permian (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, 
Magdalen Islands) and Triassic (Nove Scotia), this suggestion 
arrested attention as highly reasonable and worthy of careful 
* The Stratigraphical Value of Foraminifera. Geological Magazine, May 
1922, p. 238. 
