﻿374 Eeports and Proceedings — Geological Societg. 



In this paper the author gave an account of the results of a further 

 exploration of the ossiferous deposit at Windy Knoll. The section 

 exposed included the following beds in descending order : — Clayey 

 debris without bones, probably quarry rubbish ; yellow clay, with 

 large blocks of limestone, etc., and containing bones of Bison, Rein- 

 deer, Hare, Wolf, Fox, and Bear ; and stiff yellow loam resting on 

 the surface of the limestone. The bones and teeth of animals were 

 generally perfect, and had been buried in their natural positions. 

 The entire skeleton of a Eoedeer was found in the upper part of the 

 yellow clay. As the work proceeded the limestone floor descended 

 rapidly, and the ossiferous clay increased in thickness from 8 to 21 

 feet ; at the bottom^ it rested on loose fragments of limestone, filling 

 a vertical shaft. The author concluded that the rock-basin contain- 

 ing the ossiferous deposit was originally a swallow-hole, plenty of 

 which occur in the immediate neighbourhood, and that the vertical 

 shaft, filled with limestone fragments, probably led down into a 

 cavern through which di'ainage took place. The rock-basin forming 

 the mouth of the swallow-hole was lined with clay, as is not un- 

 common, and then converted into a pool, in which the ossiferous 

 clay was accumulated. The author noticed the geographical changes 

 which must have occurred in the district since the formation of the 

 deposit, and indicated the proportions of the remains of young and 

 old Bisons and Reindeer, which confirmed the conclusion arrived at 

 in his former paper, that the Bisons were here in the summer and 

 the Reindeer in the winter. He regarded the deposit as of late 

 Pleistocene age. 



11. "Description of the Fossil Organic Remains from Bendigo." 

 By M. Carl August Zacharige. Communicated by the President. 



In this paper the author described the fossils obtained by him 

 from the slate deposits in the neighbourhood of the auriferous 

 quartz reefs of Bendigo. He remarked on the absence of Trilobites 

 and of Diplograptian Graptolites ; Lingula is of very rare occur- 

 rence, Monoprionidian Graptolites abound, bivalved Phyllapods are 

 frequent, and there are doubtful examples of a Stomapod Crustacean. 

 This last is described but not named. The Phyllopod is described 

 as forming a new genus named Alaocaris. The Lingula is identified 

 with Z. Davisii. Some species of Sertularia are described as new 

 under the names of S. australis, S. astricus, S. truncus lapillarum, 

 S. magna, and 8. mrgata. Of Graptolites the author notices the 

 occurrence of Gonothecge (?), and of the following species : — Grapto- 

 lites Sedgwicldi, Graptolithus (Didymograpsus) planus, sp. n., G. -ex- 

 iensus, geminus, serratulus, iripedes, sp. n., tetrapleums, sp. n., 

 Murchisoni, fruticosus, pygmceus, sp. n., campanula, sp. n., crassus, 

 sp. n., bryonoides, scopula, sp. n., spinifer, sp. n., quadribrachiatiis, 

 and var. gracilis, octobracMatus, MacTcayi, sp. n., JSutchinsom, sp. n., 

 roseta, sp. n., briareus, sp. n., filicatus, sp. n., Pythagoras, sp. n., 

 cardunus, sp. n., stellatus, sp. n , and trifarium, sp. n., and Pliyllo- 

 graptus folium. 



12. "Notes on some recent Discoveries of Copper Ore in Nova 

 Scotia." By Edwin Gilpin, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



