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with it belonging, as has been said, to another individual. The 

 cranium is of small size, and from its general aspect may be judged 

 to be that of a female. It is symmetrical, brachycephalic, and 

 orthognathic. The forehead is well arched, and the supra-orbital 

 border very slightly elevated. The proportion of breadth to length 

 is as 792 to 1000, and of height to length in the same proportion. 

 The lower jaw which accompanied the skull is that of a much older 

 individual, of larger size. Encrusted with a precisely similar matrix, 

 and, when uncovered, presenting exactly the same colour and general 

 appearance of surface, was a tibia of highly platycnemic conforma- 

 tion. Besides the human bones, the collection from the ' Judges' 

 Cave' includes those of several species of Euminants, some of which 

 are apparently in much the same condition as the human bones, 

 whilst others are evidently thoroughly fossilized, and belonging to a 

 different epoch. 



2. G-EOLOGiCAL Society, (Somerset House.) 

 Decemher 2lst, 1864. 



The following communications were read : — 1. " On the Coal- 

 measures of New South AVales, with Spirifers, Qlossopteris, and 

 LepidodendronT By AV. Keene, Esq. Communicated by the 

 Assistant- Secretary. 



1. The prevailing rock in New South Wales is a sandstone, which 

 is called the " Sydney Sandstone " by the author, and is the most 

 recent deposit in the colony. Its upper beds contain certain shales, 

 called the " False Coal-measures " by Mr. Keene, and the " Wya- 

 namatta Beds " by the Eev. "W. B. Clarke, the position of which is 

 800 feet above the true Upper Coal-seam. On approaching the 

 latter, Vertehraria australis and Glossopteris are met with ; and these 

 plants accompany the entire series of the Coal-measures, from the 

 topmost to the lowest seam. The workable seams of coal were 

 stated to be about eleven in number ; and the author remarked that 

 towards the two lowest seams, Pachydomus, Belleroplion, &c., were 

 found ; Spirifer abounds near the lowest seam, as well as Fenestella 

 and Orihoceras ; but the Vertehraria and Glossopteris occur through- 

 out, while Lepidodendron has been found in coarse grits below the 

 Coal-measures. 



Mr. Keene then described a lower fossiliferous limestone uncon- 

 formable to. and much older than, the Coal-measures ; and gave a 



