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sandstones of Fiehmond, near Nelson, and also proving the Triassie 
age of the deposits. ( t; Geology of Southland. Report of Explora¬ 
tions, Geol. Surv * N.Z.f p. 101.) 
Not very distant the same careful observer defected some of 
the same species as occur in Queensland in the Middle Jurassic 
formation, described by Mr. Moore, eg., A start e JVol Iwmbi 1 laensis, 
with oilier genera and species that link in the South with 
the North island (p. 105). These discoveries justify the 
inference that Triassie rocks are probably present also in New 
South Wales. 
JUetv Guinea . — Tt lias long been known that Jurassic rocks 
exist at the northern end of New Guinea. But recently Signor 
d’Albertis brought to Sydney from the Fly Iiiver several fossils, 
among which Professor Livcrsidge noticed Belemnites and an 
Ammonite (of Liassic facies), &c. These I also saw — but I. did 
not recognize those species which I have from Queensland. 
Cketaceous. 
When I first announced in 1800 the proof that Secondary 
fossils did exist in Australia, exhibited in Sydney, and 
forwarded to Sir Henry Barfely for Professor M‘Coy’s inspection, 
I especially mentioned the occurrence of Cretaceous species.* 
This was doubted, and the whole series classified as “ not higher ” 
than the “ lower part of the great Oolite But in 1S00, the 
Professor himself announced from another part of Queensland 
the occurrence of two Inocerami , and two Ammonites , from the 
Flinders Fiver district. He also announced an Icthjosaurus, a 
Plesiosaurus , and a Belemnitella , from lower Cretaceous strata of 
the same district. 
Mr. Moore says, of the Wbllumbilla fossils, “ That they all 
belong to the Upper Oolite may with safety be inferred, but the 
Cretaceous beds have a claim to be considered,’ 4 and he established 
the existence of the genus Crioceras, which was first reported 
by me. 
In 1872, Mr. Daintrec, F.G.S., read his Notes on Queensland, 
before the Geological Society, the Marine fossils illustrating 
which were (as before stated) described by Mr. Etheridge, F.B.S., 
L. &E.,F.G.S., Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Great 
Britain. The number of Oolitic species recorded is six, and of 
Cretaceous twenty-five. 
The expedition of 1872, in the Cape York Peninsula, in which 
Mr. Norman Taylor, of the Victorian Survey, was Geologist, has 
# See papers by the author “ On Recent Geol. Discoveries in Australasia 
(18G1) pp. 27, 48, and “ On Marine Fossiliferous Secondarg Formations in 
Australia” (Q. J. G. S., xxiii, 8.) 
