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the recent prospecting of the Cretaceous Coals of the Cork District " 

 (1902). Some midden heaps near Albatross Bay are noticed, from 

 20 to 30 feet high and stretching for several hundred yards, also 

 large deposits of pisolitic iron-ore at the Batavia Eiver, and some 

 recent calcareous beds overlying Desert Sandstone of Upper 

 Cretaceous age at Sweers Island. There is in addition much 

 information of a general character concerning this district. 



Other Queensland publications recently received are : Annual 

 Report for 1901 ; Coal Beds of Waterpark Creek, by W. E. Cameron, 

 described as Trias-Jura in age, resting on Permo-Carboniferous 

 slates ; the Kangaroo Hills mineral-field, by W. E. Cameron, 1901, 

 mainly economic, but with a geological map on which the age 

 of the sedimentary beds is "undetermined"; and the Burrum Coal- 

 field, by W. H. Eands (1886) and L. C. Ball (1901), 1902, with 

 maps and plans. Here, again, the age of the coal-bearing beds 

 is said to be Lower Trias-Jura. Fossils are apparently scarce in 

 species, though plentiful in numbers, but no fossils have been found 

 in the surface rock, and its age is therefore unknown, though in 

 places it resembles the Maryborough Desert Sandstone, which is 

 of Upper Cretaceous age. 



Melbourne, National Museum. — Mr. Frederick Chapman has, 

 we are informed, already made great strides towards the general 

 arrangement of this Museum. We notice that in the Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society of Victoria he has begun the description of 

 "New or little-known Victorian Fossils in the National Museum, 

 Melbourne." Those described in part i, range from Plantse to 

 Crustacea, and include an interesting Crinoid to which the name 

 Helicocrinus has been given, and a new Phyllocarid, called by 

 Mr. Chapman Bhinopterocaris. A great deal may be said as to the 

 advisability of giving local names to forms by reason of supplying 

 a clue to their locality, but we think Mr. Chapinan would be more 

 kindly thought of if he refrained from calling any more fossils 

 ' wooriyallockensis ' ! 



North of England Geology. — Bibliographies of the geology of 

 the North of England have appeared in The Naturalist since 1884. 

 The one recently published by Mr. Thos. Sheppard for the year 

 1900 contains some 200 entries, to the majority of which are 

 appended short notes of contents. These local lists are of con- 

 siderable value, and we should like to see a special effort made to 

 keep them more up to date. 



Petroleum. — M. Remain Zaloziecki has published " nitrowaniu 

 nizej wracych frakcyj ropy galicyjskiej," in Bull. Intern. Sci. Cracovie 

 (Avril, 1903). This may be englished as follows: "On the nitra- 

 tion of fractions of Galician petroleum of which the boiling point 

 is slightly raised." The paper is in French. A further article on 

 the petroleum industry in Peru during 1901 will be found in 

 Spanish in the Boletin del Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Minas del Peru, 

 a new periodical of which Nos. 1 and 2 (1902) have just reached us. 

 It is issued at Lima by the Ministerio de Fomento. 



