288 Correspondence—Mr. Arthur H. Foord. 
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CLAIM OF PRIORITY. 
Srr,—My friend Mr. G. C. Crick, of the British Museum (Nat. 
Hist.), has drawn my attention to the fact that Mr. S. A. Miller, of 
Cincinnati, has proposed (Advance Sheets, 18th Report, Geol. Surv. 
Indiana, p. 71) a new genus—Streptodiscus—for Nautilus stygialis, 
de Koninck, and its allies—to replace Trematodiscus, erected by Meek 
and Worthen (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 147), and 
Trematoceras, proposed by Hyatt in 1883, both these names being 
preoccupied, the first by Hackel for a genus of Radiolarians, the 
second by Hichwald for a Bactriies, and also (according to Mr. 
Miller) by R. P. Whitfield in 1882, for a (fossil) Cephalopod. I 
must be permitted, however, to point out to Mr. Miller, and to all 
whom it may concern, that I proposed the name Celonautilus for 
Nautilus cariniferus, Sowerby, first in a paper by Mr. G. C. Crick 
and myself (Guou. Mac. Decade III. Vol. VI. p. 494, 1889), and 
afterwards, with a full description of the genus in the “ Catalogue of 
the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History),” 
Part II. 1891, p. 105, I enumerated in this place the following 
species as falling within Celonautilus, viz. Nautilus stygialis (as type), 
N. Edwardsianus, NV. Omalianus, and N. pinguis, de Koninck (not 
N. pinguis, M‘Coy), together with N. sulcatus, N. cariniferus, ete. of 
J. de C. Sowerby. Artuur H. Foorp. 
Dvusiin, April 14, 1893. 
MIESCHDLHAWHOUS.- 
Tue Murcuison Goup-FirLp.—Werstern Avstratta has lately 
added another Gold-field to its possessions, the proclaimed area of 
which is 32,000 square miles. This field was discovered in 1891 
and has just been reported upon’ by Mr. Harry Page Woodward, 
F.G.8., the Government Geologist for the Colony. The principal 
auriferous belt is situated on the eastern side of the area, about 200 
miles from the coast, running in a north and south direction. Taken 
as a whole, the field is exceedingly rich, and will probably extend 
for a great distance eastwards. Water is abundant and at shallow 
depths, for which the district is celebrated ; timber is scarce. This 
field has a brighter outlook than any other in the Colony, having 
neither the distance to Kimberley nor the salt-water of Yilgarn to 
contend with. On the east side of the Weld Range, is the celebrated 
‘‘Wilgie Myah,” probably one of the largest Iron-lodes in the world, 
composed almost entirely of hematite in immense botryoidal masses. 
The natives quarry it to obtain the red and yellow ochre with which 
they love to adorn their persons. The place has probably been 
worked by the aborigines for hundreds of years before the white 
man set foot in Australia. 
1 Tssued in Perth, W.A., April, 1893. 
Erratum.—Readers of the GuoLocicaL MaGaztne are requested 
to make the following correction in legend to woodcut on p. 207 of 
Prof. Bonney’s article in the May Number, 1893 :— 
For “ G seems to guadrate in A,’ etc., read “‘ G seems to graduate into A,”’ etc. 
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