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in the vicinity of this seam of coal. At the " Limestone station " on 

 " Brenner River," which falls into the Brisbane, Mr.Cunningham pro- 

 cured a series of specimens, which consists of yellowish hornstone, 

 bluish grey, a gritty yellowish limestone, and indurated white marl, 

 much resembling some of the harder varieties of chalk, and containing 

 large masses of black flint, and of bluish grey chalcedony passing into 

 chert. A bed of coal has likewise been noticed in the Brenner, and 

 traced from that stream to the Brisbane. To the south of the 

 " Limestone station " is a remarkable hill, called " Mount Forbes," 

 consisting of trap; and 50 miles south of the penal settlement 

 on the Brisbane is the Birman-range, from which the author pro- 

 cured specimens of compact quartz rock. From Mount Lindsay, 

 likewise south of the Brisbane, he obtained specimens of granite. 



To the collections formed by himself, in the districts above men- 

 tioned, Mr. Cunningham has added some specimens obtained by 

 Capt. Sturt during an excursion from Bathurst to the marshes of 

 the Macquarie, and thence to the Darling River. ^They include car- 

 bonate of copper from a white argillaceous cliff at Molong Plain; 

 stalagmite from the bed of the Macquarie; pink clay from the 

 cataract below Wellington Valley; porphyry from Mount Harris; 

 hard, granular, quartz rock from Oxley's Table-land and Mount 

 Hellvellin; granite from New Year's Creek; quartzose conglome- 

 rate, porphyry, sandstone, white clay, and selenite, from the Darling 

 River ; and lastly, specimens of compact limestone, containing corals, 

 from a limestone range 16 miles north from Bathurst. 



A paper was next read, entitled " An Account of Land and 

 Freshwater Shells found associated with the Bones of Land Quad- 

 rupeds beneath diluvial Gravel, at Cropthorn in Worcestershire,"' 

 by Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq., F.G.S. 



On two former occasions Mr. Strickland laid before the Society 

 brief notices of the discovery, near Cropthorn, of the bones of extinct 

 quadrupeds associated with shells of existing species : — the present 

 paper contains the result of his continued researches. The de- 

 posit in which these remains were found, is situated on the road from 

 Evesham to Pershore, and on the east side of the small rivulet which 

 flows from Bredon Hill towards the Avon. In May 18S4f the deposit 

 presented a section about 70 yards in length and 8 feet 6 inches 

 high in the middle. The lower part of it consisted of lias clay, on 

 which rested a layer of fine sand, containing 23 species of land and 

 freshwater shells, with fragments, more or less rolled, of bones 

 of the Hippopotamus, Bos, Cervus, Ursus, and Canis. The sand 

 passes upwards gradually into gravel, which extends to the surface, 

 and differs in no respect from the other gravel of the neighbour- 

 hood, being composed principally of pebbles of brown quartz, but 

 occasionally containing chalk flints, and fragments of lias Ammo- 

 nites and Gryphites. The bones, though most abundant in the 

 sand, are interspersed also through the gravel ; but the shells are 

 confined to the sand. Lists are given of the bones, and of the species 

 of the shells, two of which are supposed to be extinct. The au- 



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