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Sedimentary Formations 
Mr. Charles Moore (of Bath) F.G,S>, enumerates 171 species of 
Secondary animal fossils from Queensland, all sent to him for 
description by myself; and sixty-two from Western Australia, of 
which twenty species are common to England and that Colony. 
The latter collection belongs chiefly to the Lower Oolites, 
Upper and Middle Lias; and the former embraces the Upper 
Oolites and Cretaceous formations. Mr. Brown, Government 
geologist in Western Australia (Report of 1873) mentions 
Mesozoic beds in the Darling Range, and, again, on the South 
Coast, from Cape Rich to beyond Mount Barren, and as far as 
Cape Eaperance. Saliferous and reddish sandstones, &e., are the 
chief rocks. On his chart they and their detritus occupy seven 
degrees of latitude, and from one to three of longitude. But there 
is nothing defined as to fossiliferous evidence, except about 
Champion Bay. From Wizard Peak and Mount Fairfax I have 
received numerous fossils through the agency and kindness of 
the lion. F. P. Barloe, F.R.G.S., Colonial Secretary, and the 
Rev. C. G. Nicholay, of Geraldton, who not only added to my 
collection, but supplied me with a personal survey of his neigh¬ 
bourhood on an enlarged scale, and with more minute details 
than Mr. Brown’s chart exhibits. 
There does not appear to be any fossiliferous evidenco of 
Mesozoic formations in South Australia, where the rocks are 
chiefly Palaeozoic, Metamorphic 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 neighbourhood of Green Ponds and Bagdad betrays a 
resemblance to some portions of the Wianamatta shales and 
sandstones of New South Wales. But the area there is far from 
extensive. 
Mr. 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 ago of the coal, which has of late 
established its Palamzoic character as unmistakeably as the seams 
of Anvil Creek, &c. 
Coal has been reached on the Mersey 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 Neocomian rocks or fossils. 
On the 6th July, 1863, a paper by M. Eugene Deslongchamps 
was read before the Linnean Society of Normandy on the Geology 
of Hugon Island, in New Caledonia, in which mention is made 
of a Pecten and fish scalo from Cape St. Vincent, on the S.S.W. 
