158 GEOLOGY. 



by a series of vertical woodcut-sections of the coal-seams worked in the 

 collieries of the N. S. Wales Coal-field. The conformable nature of the 

 overlying beds containing Palaeozoic marine fossils with fthe coal- 

 seams and interstratificd shale containing Olossopteris and other plants 

 is shown by these. XIII. R. W. Moody. Description of Coal-seams 

 at Mt. Kembla, near WoUongong, pp. 249-252 (1 vertical section). 

 The seams crop out on the slopes of the Mt. Kembla Ranges, and are 

 nearly horizontal. R. E., Jun. 



McKay, A. On the Identity of the Moa-hunters and the present 

 Maori Eace. Trans. iV. Zealand Inst. vol. vii. pp. 98-105 ; Pro- 

 ceedings^ p. 493. 



Describes the excavation of the Moa-bone Point Cave, Sumner {see 

 Haast, Geological Recokd for 1874, p. 151). 



Mackay, T. The Glacial Period of I^ew Zealand. Trans. JS. Zea- 

 land Inst. vol. vii. p. 447. 



Considers that palaeontological research is at present the best means 

 of ascertaining the distance of time at which our Glacial periods 

 occurred. R. E., Jun. 



Manning, J. Sydney Water Supply by Gravitation. Trans. U. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales for 1874, pp. 41-56. 



Gives a few geological items in a note at p. 56. Considers the sand- 

 stones over the Coal on the lUawarra Eanges to be the same as the 

 " Gres-houiller " of the French. The greatest storage reservoir of water 

 for Sydney is to be found in this high coast-range. The dip is slight 

 and north-westerly. R. E., Jun. 



Mulligan, J. V. Preliminary Report of the Mulligan Exploring 



Expedition in N. Queensland. Queenslander, n. ser. vol. x. no. 8, 



p. 23. 



Around the junction of the Rivers Lynd and Tate the country is 



composed of a " conglomerate sandstone." Westerly, between the Lynd 



and the Staaten R., Desert Sandstone prevails. Granite was found at 



the headwaters of the Coleman R. Indications of gold were obtained 



on the Rivers Lynd, Fahy, Coleman, and King, on the W. side of the 



main dividing range; and tin-ore was found on the Lynd. R. E., Jun. 



Mundy, D. L. Rotomahana ; and the Boiling Springs of New Zea- 

 land. Map (not geological). 4to. London. 

 16 photographic views of boiling springs, tufaecous and mud de- 

 posits, &c., with descriptions (partly geological) by Dr. F. von 

 Hochstetter. The map shows the various hot and cold lakes, and the 

 direction of the line of volcanic action from Mount Tongariro. 



R. E., Jun. 



Nicholas, W. Notes on the Quartz-reefs, or Lodes, of Sandhurst, 



Victoria, Australia. Trans, M. Geol. Soc. Cornwall, vol. ix. pt. 1, 



pp. 78-97. 



The quartz-reefs occur in L. Silurian slates and sandstone. The 



average strike of reefs and strata is 23° W. of N. The slates contain 



Gra^tolites in abundance. Near the reefs crystals of iron-pyrites fre- 



