162 GEOLOGY. 



Hector, Dr. J. Note [on the locality of Harjmctocarchms tumidus, 

 H. AVoodw., Woodi)cckcr Bay, Brighton, N. Zealand]. Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc. vol. xxxii. pp. 53-56. Sec Woodward, post, under In- 



VERTEBRATA. 



Places the Ototara group, from which the fossil was obtained, as the 

 upper part of the Cretaceo-Tertiary period. In general it bears the 

 character of a littoral or shallow-water calcareo-arcnaccous deposit. It 

 appears to have no claim to a place amongst European formations. 



11. E., Jun. 



. Eleventh Annual Report on the Colonial Museum and Labo- 

 ratory, together with a List of Donations and Deposits during 

 1875-76. Pp. 28. 8vo. Wellmgton. 



In the second part (Laboratory) are a number of analyses of coals, 

 minerals, rocks, and ores. 



On the Geology of New Zealand, with special Eeference to 



the Drift of that Country. Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. iv. no. 7, pp. 

 412-415 (abstract). 

 Icebergs do not approach within 5° of lat. of New Zealand. On the 

 W. side of the island the air is moist, range of temperature small, and 

 rainfall excessive ; much of the moisture is precipitated as snow on the 

 S. Alps. Mount Cook snow-field is 160 square miles in extent. The 

 Tasman glacier is 18 miles long and 2 wide at its terminal fall. The 

 old glaciers were far more extensive. This can only be explained by 

 unequal elevation of the land. The great depth of the submarine valleys 

 proves that the S.W. part of the S. Island has been greatly depressed. 



W. T. 



Hutton, Capt. F. W. Notes on the Maori Cooking Places at the 



Mouth of the Shag Eiver. Trans. N. Zealand hist. vol. viii. pp. 



103-108. 



An account of the exploration of a low range of sand-hills near the 



mouth of the Shag river is given. Deposits of shells and moa bones, 



with occasionally bones of the dog and seal, extend as a rule to a depth 



of 4 or 5 feet, but in one place to 12 feet, covered by 4 feet of clean 



sand. No great antiquity is assigned to the deposit. The author's 



conclusions differ from some of Dr. Haast's. II. E., Jun. 



On the Cause of the former great Extension of the Glaciers 



in New Zealand. Trans. JS^. Zealand Inst. vol. viii. pp. 383-387. 

 Thinks that no reduction of temperature enough to account for the 

 former extension of the glaciers has taken place since Miocene times, 

 but that elevation of the land may be the main cause of that extension. 

 Evidence seems to show that there never has been a glacial epoch in 

 N. Zealand, and consequently none in the S. hemisphere. R. E., Jun. 



-. Age of the Ototara Formation. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. 



p. 381. 

 Cretaceous fossils have not been foand in the beds with Uarpactocar 



