Field Notebook: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario
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About noon visited the museum of the Archdeacon University. The geological department has quite a good collection of fossils which is practically with the mineral collection, the chief attrac- tion of the museum. The geological exhibit is entirely poor. The fossil collection is however chiefly of European species particularly so in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. At 2.20 left for Buffalo and at 4.30 for Port Colborne, Ontario, reaching there at 5.45 P.M. Aug. 27. Stopped at the American Home. Collected all day on the farms formerly belonging to Rama which are about one and one fourth mile north of Port Colborne in the eastern side of the canal. The lowest Corn farm both on the canal and below the Chest bridge are probably to be correlated with