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about; the Endeavour River have “ red sandstone escarpments,” 
a feature that assimilates the formation somewhat to the “ New 
Red V or Triassic. 
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 Espcrauce. Saliferous and reddish sandstones, Ac., 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 Hon. F. P. Barlee, 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 
neighbourhood on an enlarged scale, and with more minute 
details than Mr. Brown’s chart exhibits. (See Q. ,T. G. S., xxiii, 7.) 
South Australia and Tasmania .— There does not appear to be 
any fossiliferous evidence of Mesozoic formations in South Aus¬ 
tralia, where the rocks arc 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 lias not carefully observed, must be due to pre¬ 
conceived notions as to the age of the Coal, some of which has 
of late established its Palaeozoic character as unmistakeably as 
the Beams of Anvil Creek, Ac. 
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. 
JYciv Caledonia .—Passing over to New Caledonia, the Secondary 
formations arc represented by Triassic, Li a safe, and Neocomian 
rocks or fossils. 
On the Gtli July, 1SG3, a paper by M. Eugene Deslongchamps 
was read before the Linnean Society of Normandy, on the 
Geology of Hugon Island, New Caledonia, in which mention 
