Art. XI. — Ap'pendix to remarks on ''The Older Tertiary 

 Strata at Bairnsd,ale." 



By John Dennant, F.G.S., F.C.S, 



[Read November 12, 1890.] 



Since reading my notes last month on the North Gippsland 

 tertiaries, I paid a short visit to Bairnsdale, and was 

 fortunately able to see another section on the Mitchell River^ 

 about two miles higher up the stream than where we 

 gathered the fossils last January. The locality had been 

 previously visited by Mr. D. Clark, B.C.E., who kindly acted 

 as guide on the occasion of my trip. 



We drove along the south side of the river, and thence 

 across the Lindenow Flats, till we came just opposite the 

 house of a farmer named Skinner (Parish of Wuk Wuk). 

 Having crossed the river in a boat, we found a fossiliferous 

 bed exposed on the bank, extending from below water level 

 to a height of about ten feet. 



The strata consist of a light-coloured, friable, arenaceous 

 rock, in which the shells are fi'cquently well preserved. In 

 the hard calciferous rock lower down the river, the fossils 

 are for the most part casts only, and a perfect specimen is 

 rare. The strata at Wuk Wuk reminded me of the 

 calcareous bands at Muddy Creek, not only on account of 

 the ease of working, but also because of the similarity of the 

 fossils. Upwards of sixty species were obtained, the names 

 of which are supplied in the following list. The species 

 names of a few cannot be given, as although known from 

 Muddy Creek and elsewhere, they have not yet been 

 described : — 



Voluta mc'coyii (juv.) 

 Ancillaria pseudaustralis. 

 Pleurotoma haastii 

 Cypraea murraviana. 

 Trivia avellanoides. 

 Natica polita. 



Natica gibbosa. 

 Turritella acricixla. 

 Turritella (off. tristira). 

 Turritella, 3 species. 

 Siliquaria squamulifera. 

 Eulima dance. 



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