TEIASSIC FLOEA OF BALD HILL. 
fossils are generally casts, but are occasionally preserved as a film 
of carbon. The layer that contains the fossils thins out and thickens 
most capriciously, and is replaced by a conglomerate, which consists 
of an ironstone matrix thickly studded with small quartz jiebbles, 
and differs in general appearance from the glacial conglomerate of 
the district. The new fossils have been sent to Jhofessor McCoy 
for identification. The deposit is covered by Miocene sands and 
ironstone layers containing dicotyledonous leaves. The fossil iferous 
siliceous sandstone rests on 10 feet of ironstone conglomerate, and 
below the conglomerate in sandy and earthy layers, stained by 
oxifle of iron, fossil leaves resembling (kvhAjanio'pteris may be obtained 
and also pieces of wood. About 300 yards to the north of this 
cj^uarry showing the siliceous rock, a quarry has been opened up in 
massive sandstone. This foundation lies between glacial con- 
glomerate and yields various sjiecies of (km(i(i'ino]iteris.’’ 
Feegilson, W. H., 1891. A manuscript report (in the Xational 
Museum), not hitherto published, was forAvarded by A. W. HoAvitt, 
Secretary for Mines, to McCoy on 29th July, 1891. These are 
notes to accompany a box of fossils from Bacchus Marsh, sent to 
Professor McCoy : — 
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Sketch-section by W. H. Ferguson, 29.7.91, at Hakl Hill. Fossils obtained 
in small quarry on hillside. Scale 20ft. to lin. reduced 
* Probably the Ptilophullnm 
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