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Notes oyi the Fossils. 



Among the specimens sent by Mr. Heaphy are some 



Terebratulce (of large size) in a calcareous rock, from the Wairou 



Valley. 

 Terebratulce and Bryozoa, from Kohuroa, near Cape Rodney. 

 Belemnites (sulcated), Bryozoa, and a Fern (Pecopteris't), from seven 



miles south of Waikato Head. 

 Brown-coal from Slippery Creek (Farmer's Land), and from "Wan- 



gaparou Promontory. 

 Lignite from a section at Orakei Creek, Auckland ; where clay (with 

 streaks of lignite), volcanic ash (15 ft.), sandstone, clay, and 

 lignite succeed one another (from above downwards). 

 Also a fossiliferous, friable, argillo-calcareous grit, full of green 

 grains (the casts of small organisms, especially of Foraminifcra). 

 It contains fragments of SaUeornaria, and of spines of Echino- 

 derms ; also casts of Tubulipora and small Univalves ; and the 

 following Foraminifera : — 



Nbdosaria Raphani strum, Linn. (Fragments.) 

 Vaginulina Legumen, Linn. (Common.) 

 Poh/morphina lactea, W. tfc J. 

 Onstellaria rotulata, Lam. (Common.) 

 Amphistegina vulgaris, D'Orb. (Common.) 

 Rotalia Schrceteriana, P. & J. 

 Miliola (Triloculina) ; and others, indeterminable. 

 This group indicates a late Tertiary deposit. 



Editor Q. J. G. S. 



Notes on the Plates XII. & XIII. 



The Map, Plate XII. comprises a small Index-map of the North 

 [aland of New Zealand, and the central portion of a large Geological 

 Sketch-map of Auckland and the surrounding district, constructed 

 1>\ Mr. C. Eeapbj from actual survey in l s ">7, and corrected to 

 February I *">'.). 



The corrections here alluded to have arisen from observations 

 made during the progress of I>r. I', Hoehstettcr's geological survey 

 of the Auckland District. 



It is expected thai a more complete description of the volcanic 

 and geological features of this and other parts of New Zealand will 

 be supplied in the scientific publications of the Austrian •• Novara " 

 Expedition, by Dr. P. Eochstetter, the Geologist of the expedition, 

 who remained in New Zealand, at the expense of the Provincial 

 Government 'it' Auckland, for the purpose of making a geological 

 survey of the province. 



In illustration of this memoir, the author has also supplied Beveral 

 original water-colour sketches, indicating the geological and volcanic 



