DISCOVERY OF BONES AT CUNNINGHAM CREEIC — ETHERIDGE. 9 
nor remains of its tubuli. The chambers are narrow, about 
four-eighths of an inch in the upper portion and three-eighths of 
an inch in the lower portion of the shell. There are four and six 
septa to the inch respectively in the parts referred to, increasing 
very slowly in their distance apart, and with plain edges. The 
siphuncle is a good deal inflated between the septa, wider than 
long. The external shelly-layer is not preserved, and in conse- 
quence the sculpture is not known. 
I propose to call this species Actinoceras Hardman i, in honour 
of the late Mr. E. T. Hardman, who acted as Geologist to 
Forrest’s Kimberley (N.W. Australia) Exploring Expedition in 
the years 1883-84, but who was perhaps better known through his 
connection with the Geological Survey of Ireland. 
The DISCOVERY of BONES at CUNNINGHAM CREEK, 
near HARDEN, N. S. WALES. 
By R. Etheridge, Junr., Curator. 
The Cunningham Creek Gold-field is situated about fourteen 
o 
miles south-east of Murrumburrah and Harden. The “diggings” 
lies along both sides of the creek, above and below the Jugiong 
Road — crossing to Cunningham Plains, reaching almost down to 
its junction with the more important Jugiong Creek. The whole 
of this district is composed of grey granite cropping out here and 
there in bosses and tors, otherwise a thick granitic detritus hides 
the bedrock completely, and in consequence a subsequent denu- 
dation has given rise to gently rolling downs and hills. It is in 
this detritus that the bones of extinct Marsupials have been 
found for some time past, generally lying immediately above the 
auriferous wash-dirt of the old subsidary branches of Cunningham 
Creek. The claim of Messrs. J. F. Wilson and Party, who first 
reported the discovery, is situated on the north bank of the creek, 
the shaft mouth being about seventy feet above the creek bed, 
and on the Cunningham Creek Common, barely a mile south west 
of Cahill’s Hotel. The shaft is down sixty feet in fine granitic 
detritus, interspersed with large boulders of granite. The bones 
are usually met with at fifty-eight feet from the surface, and, as 
before stated, immediately above the wash-dirt, but from the wet 
