26 Reports and Proceedings. 



appeared, tlie first part having been already noticed in the Geologi- 

 cal Magazine.^ It contains a critical study of the Cretaceous 

 BracMopoda, and is illustrated by three plates ; the genera noticed 

 are — TerebratuUna. Lyra, Magas, Morrissia, Argiope and Crania; 

 comprising 23 species with their geological distribution. 



Dr. Dupont's researches? in the Caverns and Quaternary Deposits 

 along the borders of the Lesse have been attended with much in- 

 terest. Fourteen caves were discovered. In one of which, the 

 Chaleux cave, about 30,000 flint implements have been exhumed, 

 together with many bones of the Eeindeer, Goat, Ox, Horse, Boar, 

 Brown Bear, Fox, Badger, Polecat, Hare, and Water-rat; most of 

 these animals are supposed to have served as food for man. 



In another cave, (Ti-ou de la Naulette), the most important dis- 

 covery was made, human bones (a jaw and cubitus) were found, 

 associated with bones of the Wolf, Arctic Bear, Fox, Badger, Bat, 

 Marmot, Water-Eat, Elephant, (E. primigenius) , Ehinoceros, Horse, 

 Eeindeer, Wild Boar, Chamois, Stag, Sheep, and a Fish. Several of 

 these bones were cut and pierced by man. 



The Quaternary deposits are divided into three stages by Dr. 

 Dupont — The upper stage, with Cervus tarandus ; the middle stage, 

 with TJrsus splecsus ; and the lower stage, with Elephas primigenius.^ 



Geological Society of London. — November 21, 1866. — Waring- 

 ton W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., President, in the chair. Tlie 

 following communications were read : — 



1. "On marine fossiliferous deposits of Secondary Age in New 

 South Wales." By the Eev. W. B. Clarke, M.A., F.G.S. 



In Australia, until the year 1860, the existence of deposits of 

 Secondary age had not been demonstrated, although Sir T. L. 

 Mitchell, in 1846, collected Belemnites and a few other fossils, 

 which are now said to belong to a Lower Secondary formation. 

 Since the year 1860, Secondary fossils have been collected by 

 several explorers, and the author therefore gave a history of their 

 discovery, with lists of the genera and of some of the species found 

 in each locality. His own investigations of the country near the 

 Maranoa Eiver, in Queensland, and the examination of collections 

 sent to him from localities between there and the Flinders Eiver, 

 have led him to the belief that there exist in that area formations rang- 

 ing from the Trias up to the Cretaceous. Mr. Clarke also stated that 

 the deposits occurring on the eastern and western sides of Australia 

 do not seem to be identical, fossils of the age of the Lias and In- 

 ferior Oolite having alone been obtained from the latter. 



1 See Vol. iii., p. 175. 



^ Bullet de 1' Acad. Roy de Belgique, 2 me. serie tomes xxi and xxii, 1866. 



3 See Description of a visit to the Caverns, etc., of the Valley of the Lesse, by Sir 

 "W. Vernon Guise, Bart., and the Eev. W. S. Symonds. Geol. Mag., Vol. III., 

 No. 30, p. 564. 



