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Mr. Charles Moore (of Bath) F.Gr.S., enumerates I7l species of 
Secondary animal fossils from Queensland, all sent to him for 
description by myself ; and sixty-t\Yo from Western Australia, of 
which twenty species are common to England and that Colony. 
The latter collection belongs clueily to the Lower Oolites, 
Upper and Middle Lias ; and the former embraces the Upper 
Oolites and Cretaceous formations. Mr. Brown, Government 
geologist in AFcstcrn Australia ^Eeport of 1S73) mentions 
Mesozoic beds in the Ilaiding Bange, and, again, on the Noutli 
Coast, from Cape Bieh to beyond Mount Barren, and as far as 
Cape Esperauce. Sallfci’ous and reddish sandstones, t^c., are the 
chief rocks. On his chart they and t!ieir detritus occupy seven 
degrees of latitude, and from one to three of longitude. But there 
is nothing delincd as to fossiliferous evidence, except about 
Champion Bay. Erom Wizard Peak and Alount Fairfax I have 
received niimerons fossils Ihrough the agency and kindness of 
the Hon. E. P. Bailee, E.R.G.S., Colonial Secretary, and the 
Kev. C. G. Nicholay, of Gcrahlton, who not only added to my 
collection, but supplied me with a personal suiwey of liis neigh- 
bourhood on an enlarged scale, and witli more minute details 
than Air. Brown’s chart exhibits. 
There does not appear to be any fossiliferous evidence of 
Alcsozoic formations in South Australia, wliere the rocks are 
chiefly Palaeozoic, Aletamorphic or transmuted and Tertiary. 
In Tasmania, there is, no doubt, about the same evidence as 
for New South Wales. Victorian geologists believe that the 
coal of Jerusalem is Secondary. I was inclined to think that 
the neiglibourhood of Green Ponds and Bagdad betrays a 
resemblance to some portions of the AVianarnntta shales and 
sandstones of New South Wales. But the area there is far from 
extensive. 
Air. Gould, who surveyed considerable portions of the Colony, 
says nothing leading to the idea of any extensive Secondary 
areas ; and whatever hold they may have on the mind of a 
geologist who has not carefully observed, must owe it to pre- 
conceived notions as to the age of tlic coal, which has of late 
established its Palaeozoic character as unmistakeably as the seams 
of Anvil Creek, &c. 
Coal has been reached on the Alersey under the marine 
fossiliferous beds, as I always held it would be, in spite of 
vaticinations to the contrary. 
Passing over to New Caledonia, the Secondary formations are 
represented by Triassic, Liassic, and Neooomiau rocks or fossils. 
On the 6tli\July, 1SG3, a paper by AI. Eugene Deslongchamps 
was read before the Linnean Society of Normandy on the Geology 
of Hugon Island, in New Caledonia, in which meution is made 
of a Pecten and fish scale from Cape St. Anncent, on the S.S.AV, 
