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-marls,* and grey and yellow chalk-marls (Kreide-mergel, and the con- 
_ glomerate of the Sudmerberg with its Maestricht corals), is the equiva- 
lent of the tuff-chalk of Maestricht, and the upper chalk with firestone 
of other countries. 
Iam likewise of opinion, that the Lower Quader-marl (lower flags 
_ or marl- and sandstone-flags, also the variegated marl, and lower green- 
sand of Essen) is the equivalent of the Lower Quader-sandstone, and 
not of the Upper or chalk-flags, which are the equivalents of the Lower 
chalk of Kent. 
Consequently I obtain the following arrangement of the series :— 
1. Upper Quader-sandstone ) __ 
I. Upper Quader { b: AipoatAGalanmanl ; == Upper Chalk. 
Il. Middle Quader-marl (Planer-kalk) = Lower Chalk. 
1. Lower Quader-marl a . 
Ill. Lower Quader 9. Lower Quader-sandstone } = Lourie, 
IV. Hils-clay = Neocomian. 
Professor Beyrich has represented in his Map the Upper Quader in 
‘Six subdivisions.” 
6. New Zealand—According to recent accounts from this interesting 
country, true palzeozoic coal has been discovered in the north part of the 
_ Middle Island. The accounts are too vague to be entirely decisive of 
the important question, whether in those remotest masses of dry land, 
Temains of the ancient carboniferous floras are buried. Fossils are 
Stated to have been found in a white fine sandstone grit, but their na- 
tracts of that country, kept up an active search for the rare indig- 
enous birds, and for fossils; but with the exception of a large par- 
' Tot, believed to be unknown to naturalists, no additions were made to 
the fauna of New Zealand. A diligent hunt for vestiges of the Moas, 
and for a live specimen of Notornis, was unattended with success. 
last accounts from Mr. Walter Mantel! at Otago, (March 20,) stated 
that the servants he had sent out to the localities which native traditions 
pointed out as the habitat of the Notornis, had returned birdless, and 
‘Teported that the wild dogs occupied the country to such a degree, - 
it was hopeless to expect the wingless birds could escape. The egy 
Specimen of Notornis in Dr. Mantell’s possession (in London), bi is oA 
therefore, like the last of the Dodos, to be the sole representative o 
S$ race. 
and British Tertiary. 
. derived from some prominent 
Salis dee. seticicatiet and of the Salzberg near Quedlinburg, and the flags of 
