. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . 81 A TASMANIA^ SPECIES OF HALTSTTES. (By E. Etheridge, Jun., Curator of tbeAustralian Museum, Sydney.) Mr. Thomas Stephens, , , has been kind enoughto afford me the opportunity of examining a Tasmauianspecies of Halysites from the River Mersey, between Lienaand Mole Creeks. Unfortunately, it has undergone so muchalteration by secondary replacement that specific identificationis rendered very diificult and uncertain. In 1862 the late Mr. Charles Gould published a report on Macquarie Heads, giving a list of fossils from the Go
. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . 81 A TASMANIA^ SPECIES OF HALTSTTES. (By E. Etheridge, Jun., Curator of tbeAustralian Museum, Sydney.) Mr. Thomas Stephens, , , has been kind enoughto afford me the opportunity of examining a Tasmauianspecies of Halysites from the River Mersey, between Lienaand Mole Creeks. Unfortunately, it has undergone so muchalteration by secondary replacement that specific identificationis rendered very diificult and uncertain. In 1862 the late Mr. Charles Gould published a report on Macquarie Heads, giving a list of fossils from the GordonElver Limestone, and mentioned, amongst others, a species ofthe genus in question. Mr. Stephens has favoured me with the following extractfrom the report in question— The following are theobservations* which I made at the last meeting of the EoyalSociety with regard to the fossils contained in this limestone: — In these rocks fossils are abundant; they are only con-spicuous, however, in that portion of the beds exposed to theaction of running wate
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