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1882. — In 1882 ]\Ir. Hogarth exhibited l)cfore the Hoyal Society of 
South Australia, shells obtained at a depth of two hundred and sixty feet in 
a well sinking' on Momha Station, near Mount Brown, North-AYest N. S. 
Mhales, “ vrhich Prof. Tate referred to the Jurassic genus AuceUa.”'^ 
In the same year, the late Mr. C. S. AYilkiiison, Government Geologist, 
announced that j\Ir. E. G. A'ickery, L.S., and J\fr. AYarden AA^. JI. J. Slee 
obtained ^‘Ammonites Dahilreei, Belemnites, Cytherea, Acicula, Ac.,” in the 
country I)etween the JMonnt Poole Gold-liidd and tlie Queensland border,’ no 
doubt from Lower Cretaceous strata. 
1883. — In the following year, Afr. II. A. Gilliatt exhibited before the 
Linnean Society ot N. S. AYales a collection of Cretaceous fossils from the 
Alount Brown Di^a'in^s. In commenting on the exhibit the late llev. J. E. 
Tenison AYoods drew attention to (he abundance of Avicnla alata, Etheridge, 
and considered that the matrix was curiously like the Greensand of Europe.^ 
At the next meeting of the same Society Air. AYoods descriijcd a scries 
of fossils obtained by Air. Gilliatt, “ found iy sinking a well on Alount 
Stewart Bun, whicli is situated on the Grey llanges. The fossiliferons rock 
Avas struck at a depth of 90 feet.” There appears to he every probability 
that these, and those previously recorded as coming from the “Alount Browne 
Higgings,” are one and the same. Said Air. AYoods, “the remains comprise 
many specimens of Avicula, some Gnjpliece, a Trigonia, JBelemnite, Becten, 
Oslrett, Pinna, Cyprina, Mytilm, and many broken fragments.” Eurther 
on again — “ Some valves too imperfect for satisfactory identification, hut not 
unlike Cacullcea inflata, Aloore .... Also fragments of a largo 
Cyprina [C. ca'p>ansa, Etheridge ?....) a My a, Tellina, and finally 
numerous large and Avell-presen^ed examples of Avicuki Avith characters 
AA'hich belong to many of the species dcscrilied by Aloore.” ^ 
The forms described and ligured Avere Belemnites oxps. Ten. AAMods, 
Trigonia mesemhria , Ten. AA^oods,"’ Pecten psila, Ten. AA'oods,® and Avicnla 
Barklyi, Aloore, vel rejlecta, Aloore, var. GUliatti, Ten. AAuods.' Little doubt 
can exist that the shells spoken of as Avicnla alata, Etheridge, in the 
preAuons notice Avere those afteinvards descrilied as Avicnla Barldyi, Ac. 
1 Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. for lS.Sl-82 [1882], V, p. ll."). 
^ Alin. I’roilucts N. S. AA^ales, 1882, p. 55. ('I'hesc remarks are repealed in llic .Second Edition [1887] of 
the same work.) 
2 I'roc. Linn. Soc. N. .S. AVales, ISS.'l, A^Ill, I’t. 2, p. 218. 
^ Ihid., pp. 23.5-.86, t. 1'2 and l.‘>. 
Trigonia na.snta, Etheridge. 
Synct/clonemn nocialis, niihi. 
■ Marroi/elh rHlrrfa. niihi. 
