XXX11. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



EXHIBITS I 



1. Mr. O. A. Sussmilch exhibited Cladochonus sp. indet., 

 from Wallis Head. 



2. Professor Cotton, Pele's Hair from Hawaii. 



3. Dr. Anderson, (a) Iceland spar from the Garibaldi 

 Mine, Lionsville; (b) molybdenite and native bismuth from 

 Kingsgate; (c) beryl from Torrington showing naturally 

 etched figures. 



4. Mr. W. S. Dun, Semionotus from near Geurie, Lower 

 Mesozoic. 



5. Mr. G. W. Card, exhibits from the Mining and Geo- 

 logical Museum. 



6. Mr. C. A. Sussmilch also exhibited in connection with 

 Dr. Benson's note, (a) Intrusive tuffs in Radiolarian rocks; 

 (b) Pillow lavas and examples of epidotisation from Bun- 

 dook ; (c) Permo-Oarboniferous fossils — Deltopecten illa- 

 warrensis, Spirifera, Martiniopsis, Polypora (?) from 

 Georgetown, Manning River, a horizon comparable with 

 that of Oomerford's, near West Maitland. 



Mr. Sussmilch communicated Dr. Benson's notes on 

 their joint observations on the general geology of the 

 Gloucester District : — 



The General Geology of the Gloucester District. 

 W. N. Benson, d.Sc. f.g.s. 

 The section studied extends from Bulliac Railway Station to 

 Mount George on the Manning River, a distance of eleven miles, 

 and runs in a roughly E.N.E. direction, nearly perpendicular to 

 the main direction. From such information as could be gathered 

 from the train-window, it seemed that from Gloucester to Bulliac, 

 once the Gloucester infaulted Permo-Carboniferous series has been 

 passed, the strata consist of rhyolite, Burindi (Marine) Lower 

 Carboniferous mudstones with rare limestones, and Barraba Upper 

 Devonian mudstones and tuffs, with perhaps the upper portion of 



