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Pal^ontologt. 



On Fossil Chilostomatous Bktozoa from MorxT G-am:biee. 

 By Arthur W. Waters, F.G.S. Quart. Joiirn. Geol. Soc, 

 vol. 38, pp. 257-276, plates 7-9. August, 1882. 



"The number o£ species from Mount Gambler is 67; of 

 these, we have already found 26 in the material I described 

 from south-west Victoria, four are known from Orakei Bay, 

 Xew Zealand, and I have 21 from Bairnsdale; 30 are now 

 living, of which 25 have been found in Australian waters. Two 

 species are considered identical with species found in the 

 European Chalk, twelve with European Miocene, and twelve 

 with Pliocene. Besides these forms I have found Mr. Woods 

 has described from Mount Gambler Eschara cavernosa, E. 

 Clarkei, and E. verrucosa. Woods.'" — Exteact. 



Geology axd Mineralogy. 



Eeport ox Minerals received from Mr. J. Chandler, Corr. 

 Memb., Peake, by Professor E. Tate. 



Micaceous iron, intermingled with quartz, and Eed Hematite, 



near Tennant's Creek. 

 Tourmaline in quartz, Barrow's Creek. 

 Piece of baked clay from sandhill clay pans. Fragment of a 



hollow sphere, concave face polished ; subjacent layers of 



clay dense, evidently soft clay been pressed upon by a 



smooth pebble, afterwards baked by sun's heat. 

 Red ochre of superior quality, found near Peake. Used by the 



natives in much the same way as the Parachilna-earth is 



for decoration. 

 Hemispheres of agglutinated fine particles of sand, exterior 



surface resembling that of a peach stone. 

 Conmion Opal, from 30 feet in Kelly's Well, 30 miles south of 



Tennant's Creek. 



Black Calcite. — Specimens of a mineral, mistaken for coal, 

 have been analysed in the University Laboratory, and found 

 to be calcite coloured with finely-divided carbonaceous matter. 

 The mineral is stated by Mr. S. W. Pearce, of Whyte-Yarcowie, 

 to occupy a vein in a dark-coloured slate of from four to six 

 inches thick, and extending in a north and south direction for 

 more than a mile. H. Tate. 



