414 Transactions.— Geology. 
Marine shells are found in the lower beds, while from about the middle 
of the beds I obtained broken moa bones and fragments of moa egg-shell. 
I have little doubt but that these gravels are the same as those in which the 
bones are found at Motanau. In the latter locality the presence of the lignite 
bed may indicate an unconformity between the higher and lower parts of the 
gravel deposit. This may be so and yet the younger upper beds may be of 
greater age than the alluvial deposits of the Omihi Valley. The Motanau 
moa-bone beds would therefore belong to the older beds in Glenmark Creek 
already referred to. These Glenmark beds belong either to the gravels of 
the plain south of the Waipara, or to the Upper Miocene beds forming 
gravels extending south from the Weka Pass to Mount Grey Downs, and 
forming part of the hills between Brown’s Bridge and the mouth of the 
Waipara River. I should say they belong to the younger beds, and as in 
character they agree with the gravels of Gore Bay, Cheviot Hills, we might 
thus find a reason for correlating them with the Motanau moa-bone beds. 
Arr. LXXI.—Further Notes on the Thermal Springs in the Hanmer Plains, 
Provincial District of Nelson. By Jutrus von Haast, Ph.D., F.B.S. 
(Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th August, 1881.] 
In a paper read before the Nelson Association for the Promotion of Science 
and Industry, on the 4th May, 1870, and printed in the “ Transactions of 
the New Zealand Institute,”* I gave the results of a short visit to these 
springs on 20th February of the same year. Since then, during a stay of @ 
few weeks at the same locality, from the end of December, 1876, to middle 
of January, 1877, I had ample opportunity to verify not only the observa- 
tions previously made, but to add considerably to the stock of our scanty 
tion as to the temperature of these remarkable springs, by 4 series 
of amie conducted observations during a number of days, and I now take 
the liberty to lay the results thus obtained before you. 
The barometric readings were obtained with an aneroid of Negretti and 
Zambra, and those of the thermometer taken from a set of maximum 
minimum thermometers of the same firm, the instruments before starting 
having been compared with the standard instruments of the meteorologi 
ee 
* “ Trans. N.Z. Inst.,” vol, iii., p. 293, 
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