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they have now been traced at least as far south as the latter 

 locality. 



A detailed examination of the principal iron deposits by 

 Messrs. C. S. Wilkinson and T. W. Edgeworth David show that 

 they are centered respectively (1) in the Mittagong and Picton 

 Districts, and (2) in localities contiguous to the so-called Western 

 Coal-fields. The total quantity of iron-ore at present known as 

 available in New South Wales is estimated by Mr. C. S. Wilkinson 

 at about twelre million tons. 



Under the superintendence of Mr. 0. S. Wilkinson, assisted by 

 Mr. J. E. Carne, the display of New South Wales minerals at 

 the Mining Exhibition recently held at the Crystal Palace, 

 London, was rendered complete and instructive and entirely 

 worthy of the country represented. 



Connected with Palaeontological work the following memoirs 

 were issued under the editorship of Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr. : — 

 (1) Palseozoic and Mesozoic Coal Plants of Eastern Australia and 

 Tasmania, by the late Dr. O. Feismantel. (2) Fossil Fishes of 

 the Hawkesbury Series at Gosford, by Mr. A. S. Woodward, 

 P.L.s., f.g.s., of the British Museum. (3) Mesozoic and Tertiary 

 Insects of New South Wales, by Messrs. R. Etheridge, Junr., 

 and A. S. Olliff, f.e.s. 



In addition to the above, three parts of the Records of the 

 Geological Survey of New South Wales were published, con- 

 taining numerous papers of scientific interest. 



Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr., also published Part I. of a Catalogue 

 of Works relating to the Aborigines of Australia and Tasmania, 

 which will be of great service to the student of Australian 

 Anthropology. 



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Mining and Metallurgy. — Shortly we shall be in possession of 

 the annual report of the Department of Mines for 1890 which 

 will, like its predecessors, treat exhaustively of the progress and 

 production of our mining industry. By the courtesy of the 

 Honorable the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture I am enabled 



