Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Mr. Woods has referred it. The specimen of Dolium costatum, although only an internal cast, is one of so strongly " Report on certain Hydroid, Alcvonarian and Madreporarian Corals," &c., by Prof. Moseley--Voy. " ChaUenger." Zoology, vol. II., 1881, p.p. 147 and 148. t hoc. cit., 2 Theil, p. 38. t The fossils were collected by Mr. Brazier. 5 Secimens are in the Miami; and Geological Museum, as well as in the Queensland Survey collection. II Mon. Echinodormata Brit. Tertiaries, 1852, p. 5. The New Guinea fossil does not possess the tIpioal excavations along the sutural margins of the plates seen in all true forms of Temiwchinus, nor arc the ambulaeral plates confluent. These characters arc emphasized by Forbes, and accepted by A. Agassiz in his Revision. and distinctly marked a species as to be readily recognizable from the other Australasian forms. The simple and distant cost and canaliculate suture distinguish it at once. The Pecten novce-guince is not identical, says Mr. Brazier, with any existing species in neighbouring waters, and must therefore be regarded, with the so-called Temneehinus, as peculiar to the Yule Island deposit. It is, however, remarkably like a South American Pecten, described by D'Orbigny from the Tertiary rocks of Patagonia, as P. paranensii. In addition to the species just mentioned, I detected in one of the blocks of the Macleay collection the internal cast of a Strombus, which Mr. Brazier regards as that of S. (Q all inula) Campbelli, Gray, a species now living in the Australian seas. XlX.--On the Mineral Spring at Rock Flat Creek, near Cooma, Monara District: by William Anderson, Geological Surveyor. Plate XXX. This spring is situated about ten miles to the south-east of Cooma, and occurs in close proximity...