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E. Hartley, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Canada, Montreal, was elected a Fellow of the Society.

The following communications were read:—

author referred to the observations of Professor M'Coy and the Rev. W. B. Clark on the occurrence of fossils of Mesozoic age in Australia, and then proceeded to notice the species which he had obtained from that region. Fossils of Mesozoic type occur both in Western Australia, in the centre of the Continent on Stuart's route, and in Queensland; but the specimens have hitherto been found in apparently drifted blocks, and nothing is known of the bedded rocks from which they are derived. The author stated that the Australian Mesozoic fossils agree, not only in genera, but also in many cases in species, with British forms; and he gave a list of species from Western Australia, identical with British species from the Middle and Upper Lias, the Inferior Oolite, and the Cornbrash. Of the fossils from Queensland also, many are said to be identical with, or very nearly allied to, British species; but the author regards