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In tlie catalogue of the New Zealand fossils exhibited at Sydney 

 particular pains seems to have been taken to affix names to the exhibits. 

 From the list I have extracted all that could be taken with any hope of 

 tracing them, and arranged them under authors, placing the letter M against 

 those species that can now be identified in the Museum collections. 



In Catalogue of Fossils exhibited at Sydney hy Colonial Museum,. 



Salter — 



Orthis patera. M. 

 Hall— 



Murchisonia terebralis. 



Orthis fissicostata. M. 



Callopora elegantula. 



Astrocerium venustum. 



Orthis circulus. M. 



Streptelasma jimceum. 



Orthoceras junceum. 



Murchisonia uniangulata {var. 

 abbreviata). 



Modiolopsis modiolaris, 



Leptsena bipartita. M. 

 Davidson — 



Strophomena corrugatella. 

 d'orbignyi. M. 



Orthis interlineata. M. 

 Phillips— 



Avicula anisota. 

 cancellata. 



Monotis radialis. 



Bclemnites australis. M. 

 Dalman — 



Orthis basalis. 



Chonetes striatella. 

 Lindstrom — 



Orthis crassa. M. 

 Sowerby — 



Orthis unguis. 



Spirifera radiata. 



Stricklandia lyrata. 



Rhynchonella wilsoni. M 



Trigonotreta undulata. 



Mytilus squamosus. 



Astarte minima. 



Sowerby — continued. 



Astarte elegans. 



Trigonia costata. 



Avicula costata. 

 Brongniart — 



Calymene blumenbachii 

 Konig — 



Homalonotus knightii. 

 Romer — 



Spirifera cultrijugata. 

 Hector— 



Homalonotus expansus. 



Psioidea, nov. gen. M. 



Rastelligera, nov. gen. M. 



Belemnites otapiriensis. 

 pallinensis. 

 hochstetteri. 



Trigonia sulcata. 

 Schlotheim — 



Spirifera speciosa. M. 



Epithyris elongata. M. 

 Geinitz — 



Schizodus schlothemii. 



Nautilus frieslebendi. 

 Zittel— 



Mytilus problematicus. M. 



Spirigera (Athp'is) ^^^.•eyii. 



Monotis salinaria. M. 



Aucella plicata. 

 Hochstetter — 



Inoceramus haasti. 

 Hauer — 



Ammonites novo-zelandicus, 



Belemnites aucklandicus. 

 Brown — 



Pleurophorus costatus. 



M. 



In the list of papers given at the end there are some in which further 

 assistance in the identification of species may be found ; but there is a great 

 lack of information mitil we come to the Tertiaries. 



It will be seen from this short summary that the student of geology 

 has plenty of palseontological material that might be available for him to 

 work on under expert guidance, but that the literature relating directly 

 to his work is small, scattered, and hardly up to the present level of re- 

 search. This is not a new discovery — the matter has been discussed for 

 many years. The subject is a difficult one, as it requires not only a 



