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from the Brothers Islands, and from Stewart Island, by Mr. C. Traill. 
Fishes.—No additions of any importance have been received under this — 
head. 
Invertebrata.—Little has been received beyond a collection of Tasmanian 
insects from Mrs. Battersbee. 
Palaontology.—During the present year large collections have been made 
from parts of the Canterbury, Marlborough, and Nelson Provinces, with a 
view to determining the relations which exist between the bituminous coal 
of the West Coast and the Saurian beds of the Waipara, but the evidence 
obtained Zs not sufficient at present to settle this satisfactorily. Much m- 
teresting information has, however, been obtained, together with good col- 
lections from the Waipara, Weka Pass, Culverden, Rakaia, and Trelissi¢ 
beds; and the lower beds of the Trelissic outlier have been shown to be of 
the same age as those of the Waipara, the Inoceramus, Belemnites, &e., of 
which, in addition to the Saurian remains, distinctly pronounce them as 
secondary. 
A survey of the coast line between Cape Kidnappers and Castle Point 
has also been accomplished, and a collection comprising over 750 fossils _ 
been made from the tertiary, cretaceo-tertiary, and secondary rocks of the 
district, of which the latter prove to be of Jurassic age. 
A further collection has been obtained from the Taipos, on the east 
coast of Wellington and Napier, comprising several new species ; and from 
the Tairua Valley a collection has been made, showing the rocks of that 
district to be of the same age as those of the Aburiri formation, which 
appear at Napier and Castle Point. 
A survey of the country between Raglan and the Miranda Redoubt, in 
the Province of Auckland, has been completed, and careful collections made 
from the various localities where fossils are found. About 1,800 specimens 
were collected on this trip, and it is interesting to note that, for the first time 
in the North Island, fossils (Monotis salinaria) were discovered in the older 
rocks forming the Hakarimata Range, thus fixing their horizon as much 
younger than was originally supposed, probably Triassic. With the excep- 
tion of this instance, no fossils were obtained in rocks of greater age than 
the brown coal of the Waikato basin; but collections were made from all 
the younger beds which show a direct sequence until reaching the Kawhia 
limestone, an equivalent of the Napier limestone of the East Coast. 
_ At Wangaroa North the secondary rocks of the East Cape District and 
East Coast of Wellington again appear, and there is now in the Museum a 
collection from these rocks comprising Inoceramus and many other forms, 
and a collection has also been made from the greensands which lie uncon- 
formably upon them, and which, from the presence of Pecten hochstetteri, 
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