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In this paper the author gave an account of the resnlts of a further 
exploration of the ossiferous deposit at Windy Knoll. The sectiou 
exposed included the following beds in descending Order : — Clayey 
«iebris without bones, probably quarry rubbish ; yellow clay, with 
large blocks of limestone, etc., and containing bones of Bison, Rein- 
deer, Hare, Wolf, Fox, and Bear ; and stiff yellow loam resting on 
the surface of the limestone. The bones and teeth of animals were 
generally perfect, and had been buried in their natural positions. 
The entire skeleton of a Roedeer was found in the upper pait of the 
yellow clay. As the work proceeded the limestone floor descended 
rapidly, and the ossiferous clay increased in thickness from 8 to 21 
feet ; at the bottom it rested on loose fragments of limestone, filling 
a vertical shaft. The author concluded that the rock-basiu contain- 
ing the ossiferous deposit was originally a swallow-hole, plenty of 
which occur in the immediate neighbourhood, and that the vertical 
shaft, filled with limestone fragments, probably led down into a 
cavern through which drainage took place. The rock-basin forming 
the mouth of the swallow-hole was lined with clay, as is not un- 
common, and then converted into a pool, in which the ossiferous 
clay was accumulated. The author noticed the geographical changes 
which must have occurred in the district since the formation of the 
deposit, and indicated the proportions of the remains of young and 
old Bisons and Reindeer, which confirmed the conclusion arrived at 
in bis former paper, that the Bisons were here in the summer and 
the Reindeer in the winter. He regarded the deposit as of late 
Pleistocene age. 
11. “ Description of the Fossil Organic Remains from Bendigo.” 
By M. Carl August Zacharim. Communicated by the President. 
In this paper the author described the fossils obtained by ’hirn 
from the slate deposits in the neighbourhood of the auriferous 
quartz reefs of Bendigo. He remarked on the absence of Trilobites 
and of Diplograptian Graptolites ; Lingula is of very rare oocur- 
rence, Monoprionidian Graptolites abound, bivalved Phyllajjods are 
frequent, and there are doubtful examples of a Stomapod Crustacean. 
This last is described but not named. The Phyllopod is described 
as forming a new genus named Älaocaris. The Lingula is identified 
with L. Davisii. Some species of Serhdaria are described as new 
under the names of S. australis, S. astricus, S. tnmcus lapillarum, 
S. magna, and S. vir g ata. Of Graptolites the author notioes the 
occurrence of Gonothecas (?), and of the following species: — Grapto- 
lites Sedgwickii, Graptolithus ( Didymograpsus ) planus, sp. n., G. ex- 
tensus, geminus, serratulus, tripedes, sp. n., tetrapleums, sp. n., 
Murchisoni, fruticosus, pygmceus, sp. n., campanula, sp. n., crassus, 
sp. n., bryono'ides, scopula, sp. n., spinifer, sp. n., quadribrachiatus, 
and var. gracilis, octobrachiatus, MacJcayi, sp. n., Jlutchinsoni, sp. n., 
roseta, sp. n., briareus, sp. n., filicatus, sp. n., Pythagoras, sp. n., 
cardunus, sp. n., stellatus, sp. n , and trifarium, sp. n., and Phyllo- 
graptus folium. 
12. “Notes on some recent Discoveries of Copper Ore in Nova 
Scotia.” By Edwin Gilpin, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 
