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together with augite and a small quantity of hornblende and mica. 

 These are chiefly lavas, but some few are perhaps intrusive rocks 

 and dykes. 



(2) Intrusive rocks of a diabase type, generally, however, contain- 

 ing a variety of enstatite identical with that in the andesites. These 

 are intrusive in the Cambrian rocks, and from their relations appear 

 to be most probably of Post-Silurian age. 



3. "Note on the Zoological Position of the Genus Microchoerus, 

 Wood, and its apparent Identity with Hyopsodus, Leidy." By R. 

 Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



4. " Observations on some imperfectly known Madreporaria from 

 the Cretaceous formation of England." By R. F. Tomes, Esq., F.G.S. 



5. " Correlations of the Curiosity-Shop Beds, Canterbury, New 

 Zealand." By Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. 



The " Curiosity Shop " is a locality on the River Rakaia in the 

 Canterbury Plains, and has been thus named on account of the 

 numerous fossils found in some calcareous sandstones cut through 

 by the river. The section exposed consists of 



1. River-gravels. 



2. Loose grey quartz sands. 



3. Soft calcareous sandstone with glauconite, passing downwards 



into tufaceous clay. 



4. Calcareous sandstone without glauconite. 



5. Loose grey or yellowish brown sands. 



By Mr. McKay, of the Geological Survey, No. 2 had been referred 

 to the Pareora series (Miocene?), No. 3 to the Upper Eocene series, 

 and Nos. 4 and 5 to the Cretaceo-Tertiary series. The author, who 

 was inclined to class all these beds in a single series, pointed out 

 that the only difference between the fossils found in Nos. 3 and 4, 

 the most important fossiliferous beds, consisted in the presence of a 

 greater number of forms in No. 3, all found in No. 4 being identical 

 with those in the overlying bed. He then gave a complete list of 

 the species of Yertebrata, Mollusca, Brachiopoda, Echinodermata, 

 Bryozoa, and Coelenterata, from the locality, 48 in all, and compared 

 them with those from the Weka-pass stone, 26 in number, and the 

 Ototara fossils from Oamaru, to show that a large proportion were 

 identical. He gave reasons for not agreeing with the views of Dr. 

 Hestor and Mr. McKay, who held that unconformity exists between 

 the beds referred by them at the Curiosity Shop, in the Weka-pass 

 district, and north of Otago, to the Upper Eocene and Cretaceo- 

 Tertiary series respectively, and showed both from palseontological 

 and stratigraphical data that all these rocks must be included in 

 one system, the Oamaru system of Dr. von Haast and himself. 



6. " On the Fossil Flora of Sagor in Carniola." By Constantin, 

 Baron von Kttingshausen, F.C.G.S. 





