2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Nov. 10, 
the general type of the Queensland remains as referring them to 
the Upper Oolite. A gigantic species of Crioceras is regarded by 
the author as possibly indicative of the occurrence of Neocomian 
deposits in Australia. 'The fossil evidence upon which Professor 
M‘Coy inferred the occurrence of the Muschelkalk in Australia 
was said by the author to be nugatory, his supposed Myophoria 
proving to be a Trigonia nearly allied to 7’. gibbosa of the Portland 
Oolite, and his doubtful Orthoceras a small Serpula. The author 
had found no indications of the existence of Triassic or Liassic 
deposits in Queensland. 
The blocks from Western Australia, referred by the author to the 
Middle Lias, contain Myacites liassianus (Quenst.), and are quite as 
highly ferruginous as the English Marlstone. The species identified 
by the author with British Oolitic species would indicate a range from 
the Inferior Oolite to the Cornbrash ; the author suggested that the 
species may have had a longer range in time in Australia than in 
England, or that the subordinate divisions of the Oolite were not 
clearly marked in the Australian Mesozoic deposits. He is inclined 
’ to refer the fossils to the period of the Inferior Oolite. 
The author inferred, from the occurrence of these Mesozoic fos- 
sils in drifted blocks at the two extremities of Australia, separated 
by 38° of longitude, that an enormous denudation of rocks of 
the secondary series has taken place over a considerable part 
of Australia. 
Descriptions of a great number of new species were appended to 
the paper. 
2. On a Piant- and InsEct-BED on the Rocky River, New Sour 
Watrs. By Cuarres Moors, Ksq., F.G.S. 
(The publication of this paper is deferred.) 
[ Abstract. | 
THE organic remains noticed by the author were found by him in 
a small block of chocolate-coloured micaceous laminated marl, ob- 
tained from a bed about ten feet thick, at a depth of 100-110 feet, 
in the auriferous drifts of Sydney flats, on the banks of the Rocky 
River. The author found the leaves of two forms of Dicotyledonous 
plants, fragments of a flat narrow leaf which he refers to the Coni- 
feree, a seed-vessel, and the impressions of several seeds. The 
insect-remains consist principally of the elytra of Beetles, among 
which Buprestide appear to predominate. The vegetable-remains 
seem to indicate that the deposit is of Tertiary age. 
Discussion. 
Prof. T. Rurrrt Jones mentioned the discovery of a large Crio- 
ceras in the Jurassic beds near Port Elizabeth. 
Mr. W. Boyp Dawkins suggested that we had hardly a right to 
apply the European standard in judging fossils from all parts of the 
