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7. AUSTRALASIA. 



Anon. The Australian Handbook, &c., for 1870. Pp. xx, 400, 

 216. 8vo. London. 



A paragraph on the "geological formations" or "mineral resources" 

 is given for each colony : pp. 105, 170, 24:0, 275, 281, 296, 317, 339, 

 342. E. E., Jun. 



. New South Wales ; its Progress and Resources. Pp. 31. 



8vo. Sydney. 

 Notes on mineral wealth, pp. 21-24. 



. Lignite seams at Coleraine (? Victoria). Illustrated Axis- 



trcdian News, no 244, p. 179. 

 Notice of 3 new seams within 60 feet of the surface ; partial analysis 

 gives carbon 0*4, ash 0-04. 



. New Minerals, &c. at the Museum. The Queenslander, 



n. ser. vol. xi. no. 31, p. 23. 



Notices the discovery of the genus Vertebraria in the " Ipswich 

 (Darling Downs) Coal Basin, thereby tending to correlate it with 

 that of Newcastle, N. S. Wales." R. E., Jun. 



. Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1875. Official Cata- 

 logue of the British Section. Part I. Pp. 418. 4to. London. 



Colonial Section, pp. 303-418. Notices exhibits of minerals, &c. 

 from various colonics, especially New Zealand (pp. 321-328), Queens- 

 land, with an account of the geologj^, &c., and a map showing the 

 mineral areas, by R. Daintree (pp. 338-361, 373,374), Tasmania, and 

 Victoria. R. E., Jun. 



Mining in Australia. Iron, vol. vii. p. 780. 



Statistics of mining operations given, and notices of new discoveries 

 of ores, &c. 



Visit to Tungkillo Copper Mine, S, Australia, in 1850. 



Iron, vol. vii. p. QQ. 



Minerals of N. S. Wales. Nature, vol. xiii. p. 382. 



Gives a tabular view of the succession of the U. Palueozoic rocks, as 

 compared with their possible British representatives. Adopts the ago 

 asfiigned to them by Clarke, rather than that by M'Coy. R. E., Jun. 



Geology of Australia. Coll. Guard, vol. xzxi. p. 144. 



Describes the discovery of trunks of trees at 200 feet from the surface 

 at Haddon, &c. Also mentions the occurrence of quartz-pebbles in or 

 on a coal-seam. G. A. L. 



Bonwick, J. The Victorian Iron Mine. Iron, vol. vii. p. 546. 

 The mine is in the Silurian Ranges S.E, of Ballaarat. The ore is 



