Miscellanea. 
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Another species of Spirifer with dichotomous ribs. 
Another species like S. undulatus (Sow.) with transverse striee 
on the ribs. The ribs are larger and less numerous. 
Spirifer oblatus (Sow.) or Terebratulites Icevigatus (Schlo- 
theim), like those of Vis6 in Belgium. 
A very large smooth Spirifer with a depression on each side of 
the dorsal furrow between this furrow and the edge of the shell. 
A large bivalve. 
Large pectens belonging to a new species. 
A new species of Calamopora. 
The same species are found in Van Diemen's Land, and besides 
them are a great abundance of Retepora, Cyathophyllum , Calamo¬ 
pora, Clypeaster , and Dentalium , which are rarely met with in the 
neighbourhood of Mount Wellington. All these specimens were 
collected in the hills of Moratnbiji to the south of the Blue 
Mountains, and the beds containing them are partly covered as at 
Hobart's Town with recent lignites. 
[We regret to find, for the sake of science, that so much 
ignorance still prevails in England with reference to Australian 
geography, and although the above is an extract from a French 
book, yet we think a more lucid translation might have been 
furnished in a work of such deservedly high character as the 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Hobart Town, the 
capital of Van Diemen's Land, is in the first place stated to be 
in New South Wales; and in the concluding paragraph this is 
made more obvious by stating that the same species of fossils 
found at Hobart Town and Mount Wellington, besides numerous 
others, are also found in Van Diemen’s Land ! The whole puzzles 
us a good deal—as it will all Australian readers—but we may as 
well mention for the information of M. de Verneuil and Professor 
Anstead that Mount Wellington and Hobart Town are both in the 
island of Van Diemen's Land in nearly latitude 43° S., and that 
the Moratnbiji (by which we presume is meant the hills in the 
vicinity of the River Murrumbidgee of Arrowsmith's and Sir T. 
L. Mitchell’s maps) and Blue Mountains are in New South Wales, 
between eight and nine degrees of latitude farther to the north.] 
—Ed. Tasmanian Journal . 
