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1875. Smyth, " First Sketch of a Geological Map of Australia". 



1877. Tate, " Strata exposed in the Government Well, Murray 



Plains." Geological Magazine, Nov., 1877. 



1878. Tate, " Note on the Correlation of the Murray Tertiaries " 



(pub. herewith). 

 A most valuable addition to the geological literature of Australia 

 is the recently-published " Remarks on the Sedementary Formations of 

 New South Wales," by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, F.R.S. This work is an 

 index to the immense service rendered by that veteran to geology gene- 

 rally, although more particularly confined to the palaeozoic rocks of 

 New South Wales, to which he devoted forty years of his life and his 

 remarkable talents. 



MINERALOGY. 



This important branch of South Australian Natural Science will be 

 separately dealt with by Mr. S. Higgs, F.G.S. 



PALAEONTOLOGY. 



The known fossiliferous rocks of South Australia proper belong to 

 the older and newer tertiary period. The fossils of the latter are closely 

 related to the existing fauna, whilst those of the former make part of a 

 large extinct fauna and flora, and which must be studied in relation to 

 those of the equivalent strata in Victoria and Tasmania. Great advances 

 have of late been made towards a better knowledge of the older tertiary 

 fossils of these two colonies, and the chief sources of information are — 



McCoy, ''Decades of the Prodromus of the Palaeontology of 

 Victoria," i-v., 1874-78. The fossils described and illustrated are chiefly 

 tertiary, belonging to various classes of animals. 



Mueller, " Observations on New Vegetable Fossils," 1874. 



Woods, " On some Tertiary Fossils from Table Cape," 2 pi., Trans 

 Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1874. 



Woods, "Notes on the Tertiary Fossils of Tasmania," loc. cit., 1876. 



South Australian Tertiary Fossils have been specially dealt with in 

 the following papers and works : — 



The Rev. J. E. Woods described and figured five species of pectens 

 from Mount Gambier, in Trans. Phil. Soc. of Adelaide, 1865. This was 

 followed in the same year by another on the Brachiopoda from the same 



