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intervals. The collection of moa-remains is notable, including several 

 individual specimens and a complete egg, together with some excellent 

 osteological preparations of the juvenile states, and the originals of the 

 plates in Professor Parker's paper on the cranial osteology of the moa. 



The fifth is the Hochstetter collection of rocks and fossils presented to 

 the Nelson Museum by Hochstetter, and, when the Museum was destroyed 

 by fire a few years ago, it was much damaged. Now, however, it has 

 been cleaned and restored. 



The remaining head of my list includes a number of small collections 

 that are the property of private collectors. None of these are of any great 

 extent, and they are mainly from the Tertiary beds. 



The collections outside New Zealand are not many or extensive, but in- 

 clude the following : — 



In the year 1860 the Hon. W. B. D. Mantell presented a collection of 

 Mollusca from the Miocene and Pliocene beds at Awamoa and Onekakara 

 to the British Museum. 



In 1875 a large and valuable collection was taken Home by Sir James 

 Hector from various horizons in the Tertiary of New Zealand, and ex- 

 changed with the British Museum authorities, and in 1880 a few were trans-" 

 f erred to the British Museum from the Museum of Practical Geology. A 

 few were presented in 1882 by Lieut. -Colonel Wilmer from the Pliocene 

 and Post-Pliocene, and a few* by Mr. Bullen from a raised beach near Opua, 

 Russell, Bay of Islands. These specimens were described and three species 

 figured in the Australasian Section of the Catalogue of the Tertiary 3Iol- 

 lusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum, by G. F. Harris, 

 F.G.S., in 1897, the New Zealand species being 108 gasteropods, with 42 

 lamellibrancLs. 



In 1904 Professor Park collected a large number of fossils from a new 

 locaUty on Mount Mary on the Upper Waitaki, and these were forwarded 

 to Professor Boehm, Freiburg, for examination. He has been obliged to 

 hand them over to Dr. Otto Wilckens, Associate Professor of Geology, 

 Bonn University, for description, and we are still waiting for the issue of 

 the publication. Some collections have been made in the older rocks of 

 the Nelson District, and are, I believe, being examined at the British 

 Museum at the present time. 



In the same year Professor Park and the writer made large collections of 

 fossils from the Triassic and Jurassic rocks at Nugget Point and Catlins 

 district. These fossils, supplemented with collections made by Professor 

 Park from the Trias of Nelson, are now in the hands of Professor Wilckens 

 awaiting description. 



When we come to inquire into the literature that is available, we have 

 at present to rely largely on the results of the " Novara " expedition 

 and the determinations of Zittel for the Triassic and Jurassic rocks. 

 Fortunately, the publications of that voyage are available in most of the 

 libraries, and the plates are excellent. The work, however, only figures 

 fifty species of Mollusca from all formations, together with nine quarto 

 plates of Formninijera and Bryozoa — quite a creditable result, however, 

 under the circumstances. 



Scattered through the pages of the series of the New Zealand Geo- 

 logical Reports are a great number of generic and specific names, a very 

 large proportion of which will be found on examination to be " nomina 

 nuda,''^ and will disappear. 



