566 Scientific Intelligence. 



and Kaiata beds are of Eocene age, but the Hawk's Crag breccia 

 may be Cretaceous. This report covers, not only the discussion 

 of the coal beds, but also the general and economic geology, 

 physiography and finally the mineralogy. 



8. Geological Survey of Western Australia ; A. Gibb Mait- 

 land, Government Geologist. — Recent bulletins include the fol- 

 lowing : 



No. 58, by R. Etheridge, Jr., describes Carboniferous fossils 

 from localities in the valleys of the Minilya, Gascoyne, Wooramel 

 and Irwin rivers. Eight plates give figures, in part of new 

 species. 



No. 62, by E. de C. Clarke, includes notes on the geology and 

 mining at Sandstone and Hancock's of the East Murchison Gold- 

 field. This region consists of a mass of quartz dolerite, highly 

 altered, with dikes of granite and later of fine-grained basaltic 

 dolerite ; the dikes are believed to play an important part in con- 

 nection with the deposition of gold, materially affecting the value 

 of the ores. The rocks are described hy R. A. Farqttharson. 



No. 64. Miscellaneous Reports, Series IV, Nos. 52-60. Pp. 

 165 ; 17 pis. and 35 figs. — Nine papers on different subjects are 

 included in this bulletin. Of these, one by the government geolo- 

 gist, A. Gibb Maitland, on the " Geology of Western Aus- 

 tralia " is comprehensive in character and is accompanied by 

 a sketch map in black and white. A second article by the same 

 writer discusses the mining fields ; of these the most important 

 are those yielding gold, but there are also workable deposits of 

 copper and tin. A single productive coalfield is mentioned, the 

 Collie coalfield (also described in detail in this bulletin by H. P. 

 Woodward); deposits of lignites and brown coal occur and may 

 prove to be important in the future. E. S. Simpson describes the 

 chloritoid of Yampi Sound with analyses. 



No. 65, by H. D. Woodward, describes an area of 1,000 square 

 miles in the Warren River District which came into prominence 

 in 1902-4 in connection with oil speculation, and which has now 

 been examined anew. Unfortunately the conclusion confirms that 

 of earlier date, that it is unlikely to have any importance in the 

 production of oil. The South coast asphaltum is described by E. 

 S. Simpson. It is distributed in small quantities along the shoi'e 

 for a distance of 1,500 miles and is probably not of local origin, 

 but rather brought in b} 7 the ocean drift from jettisoned or wrecked 

 ship cargoes. 



The Annual Progress Report of the Government Geologist for 

 the year 1914 (41 pages with large map) gives an account of the 

 work accomplished during the year in question. 



9. New Mineral Names • by W. E. Ford (communicated). — 

 The writer has been asked by the Editor of this Journal to pre- 

 pare the following list of new mineral names. It is also planned 

 to publish a similar list in the last numbers of the subsequent vol- 

 umes. These lists will serve in a sense as continuous supplements 

 to Dana's System of Mineralogy. The present list includes a 

 number of names of minor importance which were overlooked in 



