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The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. 
[Mar. 
A study of canned foods is being carried out, but the results are as yet 
incomplete. A low-temperature station is to be built and equipped at 
Cambridge to further the development of the work. 
In many cases the result recorded and the investigations carried out 
supply but confirmation of the pioneer work already reported by investi¬ 
gators in England, America, and New Zealand during the past twelve years 
or so. Whether the expenditure for a purpose of confirming former work 
is justified appears doubtful, especially as the Government subsidy is no 
longer available after five years. A. M. Wright. 
Cretaceous Fossils of New Zealand. 
Die Kreideformation von Neuseeland, bv 0. Wilckens. Geol. 
Rundschau, Bd. xi, 1920. 
Das neuseelandische obersenon, nebst einigen Bemerkungen 
uber seine Bivalvenfauna, by Otto Wilckens. Zentralbl. f. Min., 
1920. 
These two papers are reviews of Woods’s account of the Cretaceous 
faunas of New Zealand (N.Z. Geol. Surv. Pal. Bull. No. 4), but contain many 
original observations. Of the two zones corresponding respectively to the 
Lower Utatiir and the Ariyalur of South India, only the latter is dealt with. 
The author says that the Cephalopods alone prove an Upper Senonian age, 
a result confirmed by the Bivalves. 
The following table of forms related to the new species is given :— 
Malletia cymbula 
Callista wilckensi 
Gucullaea sp. 
Limatula woods i 
Callista wilckensi 
Trigonia waiparensis 
Thracia haasti 
Pecten selwynensis 
Barbatia mackayi 
M. pencana Phil. 
C. auca d’Orb. 
C. antarctica 0. Wilck. 
L. antarctica 0. Wilck. 
L. persimilis Stol. 
C. sculpturata Stol. 
T. crenifera Stol. 
T. subtruncata Meek 
P. veatchi Gabb 
B. micronema Meek 
| Quinquina beds. 
South Patagonian Upper Senonian. 
Grahamland Upper Senonian. 
| Upper Senonian of South India. 
Vancouver Upper Senonian. 
Chico Group, California. 
Colorado Stage, U.S. 
1. Nemodon sp. (Woods, p. 19), compared by Woods with Area japetica 
Forbes, from the Ariyalur Group of South India, is a representative of the 
genus Nordenskjoldia 0. Wilck., and it differs as follows :— 
(a.) From N ordenskjoldia nor dens Jcjoldi 0. Wilck. (from the Antarctic 
Upper Senonian) in its more oblique shape, lack of the crenate 
inner edge, and its smooth anterior teeth. 
(b.) From N. japetica (Forbes) (Ariyalur Group, South India) in its 
more oblique form and more strongly arched anterior teeth. 
(c.) From N. disparilis (d’Orb.) (Tricbinopoli Group, South India) in 
its more slender outline and more obliquely placed posterior teeth. 
It is therefore a new form, for which is proposed the name Nordenskjoldia 
woodsi. 
2. The Cucullaea sp. (Woods, p. 20) is probably C. zealandica Woods. 
A related form is 0. grahamensis 0. Wilck., from the Upper Senonian of 
Grahamland. 
3. Trigonia pseudocundata Hector (Woods, p. 21) should be spelt T. 
pseudocaudata, for there is no Latin word “ cundatus ” nor a T. cundata. 
There is a T. caudata Ag., with which Hector obviously wished to compare 
the New Zealand specimen, since both show the narrowing of the shell 
towards the posterior end. 
4. Trigonia waiparensis Woods (p. 23) is compared with T. parva Briiggen 
from Peru, and with T. crenifera. Stol. from the Ariyalur. A better com¬ 
parison is with T. antarctica 0. Wilck. and T. pygoscelium 0. Wilck. from 
