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Toronto Saturday Sep 9 1916
Took the train at 6 to North Toronto for
Cataract to collect all day in the Cataract.
Back at 9.30 P.M.
Collecting was good as it now appears to
have been around recently, but some good byssus
and fireclay slabs in the uppermost Cataract.
Most of my specimens come from the limestone
series above the Whirlpool sandstone.
Toronto Sunday Sep 10-1916
In the afternoon worked up the Shadow
Creek in the Old Brick yards in Northeastern
Toronto. About 100 feet in to the series; a blue shale
series with thin beds (1 to 5") of arenaceous limestone
and limy sandstone. More than 75% in shale. The
thick reds are thrown out and on their surfaces we
can see most of the fossils. The commonest fossil is a large
form of I P. sericeus, Others are S. modesta, Byssopsichia
radiata, Ord. modiolari, Whitearcina 2 or 3 species,
Cyrtolites ornatus, Rusophychos fuscidens, On the