168 v Historical flotes on the 



second visit was paid to the reported auriferous rocks in Banks 

 Peninsula, a detail survey of tlie saurian beds in the Waipara* was 

 made, and the remarkable Moahunter encampment at the mouth of 

 the Eakaia investigated, f At the request of the Provincial Govern- 

 ment, and in company with two of its members, several localities in the 

 Opihi and Ashburton districts, reported to be auriferous, were 

 inspected at the end of August, 1869, without however obtaining 

 favourable results. End of November, 1869, I left Chnstchurch for 

 a Geological Survey of the Amuri district, which occupied me 

 about two months, when amongst others, very interesting saurian 

 remains were discovered at the Amuri Bluff and in the river Jed. 

 A further section of the district was examined during March of the 

 next year, bringing me to the Hanmer plains. J On September 30th 

 1870, the new Museum building, in which the public collections had 

 been arranged in the meantime, was opened by His Honor "W. Kolles- 

 ton, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province, and, as before observed, 

 the building was thrown open to the public next day, a very successful 

 Art Exhibition having been held in it during the month of Eebruary 

 of the same year. The Provincial Government being anxious to obtain 

 a detail survey of the Malvern Hills, principally in reference to the 

 deposits of coal of various qualities abounding there, the Director of 

 the Geological Survey entrusted me with this task, which occupied 

 me from the beginning of November, 1870, to the end of January, 1871, 

 and from the end of April to the end of May of the same year, of 

 which the main results were shortly afterwards published.** Further 

 journeys to the Malvern Hills were made in September, 1871, to 

 inspect the progress of the different coal mines, and in November of 

 the same vear some irregular brown coal seams were examined near 



* On the Geology of the Waipara district, Canterbury. — Ibid. 



t Moas and Moahunters. — Presidential Address to the Ph" 1 . Institute of Canterbury. Trans- 

 actions, Xew Zealand Instil ute, Vol. IV. 



X On the Geology of the Amuri dis..ict ; n the Pro\in< es of kelson and Marlborough. Geological 

 Survev of 2s e\v Zealand. Reports of Geological Explorations dr-ing 1870-71, and notes on the 

 Thermal Spings iu vhe Hanmer PI? % Pro\ * ee of kelson. Transactions of the Xew Zealand 

 Institute, Vol. III. 



** Preliminary Report on the Malve-T. Hi"s, Canterbi^y. By Jri-rcs Haast, Ph.D.,F.R.S.. 

 Reports of Geologic .1 Explorations du ing 1S70-71, and Report on the Geology of the Malvern Hills, 

 Canterbury. By Jclivs Haasx, Ph.D., F.R.S. Reports of Geological Explorations during 1871-72. 



