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forthwith. Some of the gullies between the patches of older gold- 

 drift should be prospected for gold washed out of the "lead" across 

 the course of which they have been eroded. Where these gullies are 

 deeply cut into the bed-rock, an opportunity is afforded of testing the 

 junction between the bed-rock and the Tertiary drift by drives or 

 tunnels. In other places, where the country is fiat, trial shafts will 

 be necessary to prove the auriferous nature of these deposits. 



The bed of the South Para River should contain payable alluvial 

 gold, as a large area of Tertiary gold-drift, which at one time was 

 continuous, from Para Wirra into Barossa, has been denuded by the 

 river, and the gold it contained sluiced down and re-deposited in its 

 valley. 



Mr. Selwyn, in his " Geological Notes of a Journey in South 

 Australia from Cape Jarvis to Mount Serle," in 1859, recommended 

 the testing of parcels of quartz from the reefs, and a search for gold 

 in the Tertiary gravels of the Mount Crawford district, ten years before 

 gold was found. 



The information referring to the history of the diggings, depth of 

 shafts, etc., has been obtained from Messrs. Goddard, Barkla, Dawes, 

 Turner, Trenowden, Smith, and Bayley, residents of the district. 

 That relating to the yield of gold and copper from the Lady Alice 

 mine has been supplied by Mr. W. B. Lewis, who was secretary to 

 the company from 1873 to 1879, and Mr. G. C. Paid. 



The Beport contains a summary of the results of all the gold work- 

 ings in both the Barossa Gold-reefs and those of Para Wirra, and is 

 accompanied by an excellent map, prepared by H. P. Woodward, 

 P.G.S., Assistant Government Geologist. The Beport is dated 

 December 10th, 1885. 



BBPOETS J^l&JD iFIROOIEZEIDIILNra-S. 



I. — Geological Society of London. 



I.— April 21, 1886.— Prof. J. W. Judd, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. — The following communications were read : 



1. " On a certain Fossiliferous Pebble-band in the ' Olive group ' 

 of the Eastern Salt Bange, Punjab." By A. B. Wynne, Esq., F.G.S. 



The principal object of this paper was to oppose the views recently 

 published by Dr. Waagen as to the age of certain boulder-beds in 

 the Salt Bange of the Punjab. By that author these beds had been 

 considered contemporaneous with each other, and assigned to the 

 epoch of the Coal-measures, in consequence of the discovery by Dr. 

 Warth of Carboniferous fossils, especially Australian forms of Conn- 

 laria, in nodules restricted to a particular layer in the upper part of 

 a boulder-bed in the eastern Salt Bange. Mr. Wynne adduced 

 evidence to show that the fossils in question occur, not in concretions, 

 as supposed by Dr. Waagen, but in pebbles evidently derived from 

 an older series ; and consequently there was no proof that the 

 boulder-bed in question was older than the Cretaceous Olive beds 

 with which it had hitherto been associated. 



The principal boulder-beds in the Salt Bange were then briefly 



