BRITISH COLONIES.—NEW SODTII WALES.

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COLONIES ANGLAISES.

NOUVELLE-GALLES DU SUD—AUSTRALIE.Commissaires spéciaux: MM. Edw. I)eas Thomson, AV.

MacArtiiür, M. H. Marsh.—S ecrétaire du comité : M.

Fr. Boüsfield.—A gents : MM. Desgrand père et fils.

1™ CLASSE.

1 Arkell , Mme , à Bathurst. —Asbeste.

2 Blake , J., à Newcastle.—Cristaux de sélénite.

3 Bligh, R., commissaire des mines d’or, à Bingera.—

Quartz aurifères et minéraux montrant la nature desgîtes aurifères de Bcngera.

4 Boüsfield, Mme.— Or dans la serpentine et dans d’autres

gangues où l’or se rencontre rarement. Pépites d’ar-gent. (Voir cl. 2.)

5 Brodribby W. A., a Cooma.—Ossements fossiles et miné-

raux.

0 Broughton , A.-D., commissaire des mines d’or, à Tamba-roora.—Roches aurifères et minéraux montrant lanature des gîtes aurifères de Tambaroora.

7 Brown, J., a Hartley. —Houille et autres minéraux.

8 Buchanan , J., commissaire des mines d’or, à Burren-

dong.—Or, roches aurifères et minéraux montrantla nature des gîtes aurifères de Burrendong.

0 Buckley , II., a Moreton-Bay.—Houilles.

10 Cadell junior, Th., a Ben Bullen.—Minéraux, fossiles, etc.10a Calvert, J.S., a Sydney.—Minéraux.

11 Clarke , Rev. W.-B., à Sydney.— Collection de 500 éch.

de roches, minéraux, minerais et fossiles de la Nou-velle-Galles du Sud.—Or en cristaux, en pépites, enpoudre et engagé dans des gangues diverses. Tableaugéologique dessiné par Martens, d’après des es-quisses de M. Clarke.— G eological Specimens, illus-trating the succession of the Rock .Formations in NewSouth Wales, collected and exhibited by the Rev. AV. B.Clarke, M.A., F.G.S.—The intention of the Exhibitorhas not been directed so much to the illustration of theGeology of every separate district in the colony, as tothat of the whole—when viewed'with respect to the stra-tigraphical arrangement of the formations that composeit. But, as the specimens contained in this collectionhave been gathered from almost every district betweenthe latitudes of 25° S. and 37° S., and even from beyondthese limits, north and south, and between the meridiansof 147° E. and 153° E., it may be fairly assumed to repre-sent the geographical as well as the geological areas. Itis the first attempt that has been made to classify andarrange a general, and (though limited, by want of space,for the introduction of more numerous specimens) a geo-logically complete collection of the rocks, fossils, and mine-rals, of New South AVales ; and is, therefore, neither uninte-resting nor unimportant to the student in Australian geology.

The whole number of specimens collected by the Ex-hibitor, between the years 1839 and 1854, lias amounted tobetween eleven and twelve thousand. Of these, selectionsamounting to upwards of four thousand, were forwarded tothe Rev. Professor Sedgwick eight years ago ; and nowform part of the collections in the AVoodwavdian Museum,of the University of Cambridge. A further contributionhas been also made in 1854 to the same university ; andlocal selections have been distributed in other influentialquarters. But, in the colony, or elsewhere, the representa-tives of the whole series of formations have never beforebeen congregated in one comprehensive collection. Inorder to make it as useful as possible, the Exhibitor hasarranged it according to the natural divisions of the sys-tems, as now generally adopted by geologists; and he hasendeavoured to classify each system in the exact order ofits deposits, so far as he has been able to ascertain thesuccession : so that, whether the whole collection be readupwards or downwards, the regular sequence will he dis-covered to be maintained throughout ; and thus each localI’ock, fossil, and mineral, finds its peculiar position in the

BRITISH COLONIES.

NEW SOUTH WALES—AUSTRALIA.

Special Commissioners — Edw. Deas Thomson, AV.MacArtiiür. M. II. Marsh, Esqrs.— Secretary ofthe Committee: Mr. Fr. Boüsfield. — Agents: Messrs.Desgrand and Son, 35, Rue de l’Entrepôt.

CLASS I.

1 Arkell, Mrs., Bathurst.—Asbestus.

2 Blake, James, Newcastle.—Crystals of Selenite.

3 Blighy R., Gold Commissioner, Bingera.—Collection of

auriferous and other rocks and minerals, illustrativeof the gold localities of the Bingera district.

4 Boüsfield, Mrs. —Gold, in serpentine and other un-

usual matrices ; nugget of silver ; ring, kc. Hon-ourable Mention.

5 Brodrtbb , W. A., Cooma.—Fossils and other mineral

specimens.

0 Broughton, A. T)., Gold Commissioner, Tambaroora.—Collection of auriferous and other rocks and mi-nerals, illustrative of the gold localities of Tam-baroora.

7 Brown, T ., Hartley.—Specimens of coal and other

minerals.

8 Buchanan, James, Gold Commissioner, Burrendong.—

Collection of auriferous and other rocks and mi-nerals, illustrative of the gold localities of Burren-dong.

9 Buckley, Hy., Moreton Bay.—Sample of coal.

10 Cadell,Thomas, Jun., Ben Bullen.—Minerals; fossils, & c.10 a Calvert, J. S., Sydney.—Minerals.

11 Clarke, Rev. W. B. —Collection containing several

hundred specimens, illustrative of the mineralogyand geology of New South AVales; geological view,drawn by Martens, from a sketch by Rev. AV. B.Clarke. Silver Medal.

ascending or descending scale. By this means also, as thecharacteristic features of each formation are maintained,the geology of the localities not # represented may, by com-parison, be ascertained.

It may be well to mention, moreover, that where contri-butions from local districts have been sent by other personsto the Exhibition, the position of those collections in thescale may be also ascertained by reference to this generalcollection ; and inasmuch as the variety of specimens insome of those local collections is more expanded than theirrepresentatives in this collection, it has been the Exhibitor’saim in such cases to merely indicate the geological horizon.Thus the valuable collection from the coal seams and plantsof the Newcastle beds, by the Rev. C. P. N. Wilton, M.A.,(see No. 69), represents in full what is merely indicatedby one specimen in this collection, namely No. 156. Thus,also, the specimens of fossils, coal, and concretions, fromBullai, exliibitcd by Mr. Keene (see No. 34), are foundto belong to that part of the geological series which isrepresented in this collection from No. 157 to No. 1S6.The proper position of the Fitzroy iron ore is also markedat No. 127. Again, the true position of the alluvial goldis marked, and that of gold in quartz and granite is equallyindicated by the selection of specimens collected at thevarious localities enumerated in the catalogue, and by thearrangement of. the rocks in their stratigraphical position.It is to be regretted that there is no room to introducea greater number of fossils ; but those which are introducedare quite sufficient for the purpose intended.

Without entering in this place into any discussion as tothe reasons why the Exhibitor lias chosen to arrange all thespecimens from No. 73 to No. 270 inclusive, under the headof carboniferous, without attending to the divisions whichmight be made in the scale, according to the probable evi-dence of certain fossils, and which, if suffered to obtainpreponderance above other evidence, would, though notaltering the actual succession of the rocks as exhibited inthis collection, remove all, from No. 73 to No. 156 inclu-sive, out of the Palseozoic formations, and place them underthe head of Jurassic, Trias, and Permian, it remains to state

New SouthWales,

Class 1.

Mines,Metallurjfv, andMinerals