Miscellaneous In telligence. 403 
Tin-bearing pay So New England, in New South Wales, 
Australia.—A re rt by the Licensed Surveyor, C. 8. Wilkinson, 
to the Surveyor General dated July 14, 1873, contains the follow- 
ing among its stat ments. The region described lies within a 
= of about swenty- -five miles from Inversell to the south and 
The principal tin mines are on Cope’s Creek, Middle Creek 
ey Macintyre Ri The rocks are granites, greenstone trap, 
Carboniferous beds, Miocene, Pliocene and Quaternar 
The Quaternary includes eposits. On the Macintyre val- 
ley the stratified drift is in ieee of various heights above the 
river. Rey. W. B. Clarke states that he has traced some of this 
“The Pliocene of the region includes extensive basaltic pele 
The Tertiary abounds in stems and leaves of —— s of the gene 
Laurus, Cinnamomum, Tiphscgens and others, which are re- 
ferred to the Lower Mi jocene, M’Coy finding some species closely 
like those of Oeningen and of the vicinity of Bonn. 
oa Carboniferous beds are of the same age with those of the 
unt 
Stream tin i found in the Drift, aye also o bea ety and 
valuable very! of tin ore occur in ah Gp e gr anite is 
stated to be osely like that of aie sey is pronounced of 
Upper vaboee pie age. 
Stanniferous country of New South Wales aa graves x pia 
8. Tortoises - os closely related to those of the Gala- 
pagos, reg that are nearly antipodes to one another—Dr. A. 
Giinther, in a memo dir on “the api aa Extinct Races of 
ro only mack become extinct. They « differ from pedior Tor- 
toises of the region in having a flat cranium and truncated beak, 
and in this respect they have the greatest affinity with the bagged 
still inhabiting the Galapagos Archipelago. Dr. Giinther ob- 
Serves that the presence of these allied tortoises at plats so 
remote from one another can be accounted for only on the tice, 
that they are “ each case indigenous.—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
> 311, Oct., 1874. 
. The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.—The 
pos ust number of this excellent journal contains a paper by Prof. 
yi sp 
able review of this whole subject, as viewed by an astronomer who 
