DISCOVERY OF BONES AT CUNNINGHAM CREEK — ETHERIDGE. 9 



nor remains of its tubuli. The chambers are narrow, about 

 four-eighths of an inch in the upper portion and three-eighths of 

 an inch in the lower portion of the shell. There are four and six 

 septa to the inch respectively in the parts referred to, increasing 

 very slowly in their distance apart, and with plain edges. The 

 siphuncle is a good deal inflated between the septa, wider than 

 long. The external shelly-layer is not preserved, and in conse- 

 quence the sculpture is not known. 



I propose to call this species Acti7ioceras Hardmani, in honour 

 of the late Mr. E. T. Hardman, who acted as Geologist to 

 Forrest's Kiniberley (N.W. Australia) Exploring Expedition in 

 the years 1883-84, but who was perhaps better known through his 

 connection with the Geological Survey of Ireland. 



The discovery of BONES at CUNNINGHAM CREEK, 

 NEAR HARDEN, N. S. WALES. 



By R. Etheridge, Junr., Curator. 



The Cunningham Creek Gold-field is situated about fourteen 

 miles south-east of Murrumburrah and Harden. The " diggings " 

 lies along both sides of the creek, above and below the Jugiong 

 Road — crossing to Cunningham Plains, reaching almost down to 

 its junction with the more important Jugiong Creek. The whole 

 of this district is composed of grey granite cropping out here and 

 there in bosses and tors, otherwise a thick granitic detritus hides 

 the bedrock completely, and in consequence a subsequent denu- 

 dation has given rise to gently rolling downs and hills. It is in 

 this detritus that the bones of extinct Marsupials have been 

 found for some time past, generally lying immediately above the 

 auriferous wash-dirt of the old subsidary branches of Cunningham 

 Creek. The claim of Messrs. J. F. Wilson and Party, who first 

 reported the disco^ ery, is situated on the north bank of the creek, 

 the shaft mouth being about seventy feet above the creek bed, 

 and on the Cunningham Creek Common, barely a mile south-west 

 of Cahill's Hotel. The shaft is down sixty feet in fine granitic 

 detritus, interspersed with large bouldera of granite. The bones 

 are usually met with at fifty-eight feet from the surface, and, as 

 before stated, immediately above the wash-dirt, but from the wet 



