Paun.—Ferrous Sulphate in Thaines Goldfield. “551 which are separated by the Mount Brown or Hutchiziéon Qu beds. : i (l.) That the Weka Pass Stone has no relation to the Waitaki or Oamaru Stone, but is the closing member of the Waipara series in Canterbury. : . : (m.) That the Weka Pass Stone is always conformable to the Amuri limestone. ‘ Crassrrication or New Zeananp Formations. ‘ The classification which my investigations in the past four years have led me to adopt is as follows : Recent .. River and beach sands and gravels, 7 *"sand-dumes, &. " . |Pleistocene .. s+ High-level gravel terraces, old mo- Tertiaty .. ratnes, old river-fans, dic. =,” Newer Pliocene. Wanganui series. a {Qlder Pliceene TI We Aute or Waitotara series. Miocene. v. Oamaca series. ‘Upper Cretaceous... Waipara series. Secondary {Jurassic .. Mataura series. Triassic. I) Shaw Bay series. ‘Pormo-Carboniferous.. Mount Mary eories. Carboniferous .» Kakanui series. Upper Silurian 1. Mount Arthur series. Lower Siturian » ++ Collingwood se1 . . Azoio . 12 Grystalline schists of Otago. Primary .. Anr, LVII.—On the Occurrence of Large Bodies of Ferrous Suiphate in the Gold-mines of Thames Goldfield. By Marrnew Pavn, Mine-manager. Communicated by Professor James Park. {Read before the Otago Institute, &th November, 1904.] Suneuare of iron is found in large deposits in the old work- ings on the Thames Goldfields, principally in the Kuranui, Caledonian, Waiotahi, Victoria, and Moanataiari Mines, situated west or seaward of the Great Moanataiari ‘Fault. In No. 8 level in the Kuranui-Caledonian Mine, in an old cross-cut drive (847 ft. from surface) which was driven for the purpose of connecting with the Waiotahi Mine some . twenty-five years ago, there is a very large deposit of this mineral. In some parts it has almost filled this drive’ up, and one would think at first sight that the country-rock had fallen away, but on closer examination the whole of this is found to be sulphate of iron. In this level there is scarcely any moisture to be seen, and the deposit grows on thé top,552 Transactions.—Geology. bottom, and sides of the drive. It is very pale-green in colour, and when exposed to the atmosphere for some time gradually melts away, but if put under a glass case it keeps its form and colour for many years. At this particular level the mineral is very pleasing to the eye by candle-light, as nearly all the colours of the rainbow are reflected from its surface. Ferrous sulphate also occurs at No. 1 level (210 ft.)—in one case the characteristics being somewhat similar to that already described, but in another place the reason for its formation can be plainly seen. The water dropping from the roof has formed stalactites of all shapes and size, some of them very beautiful in form and colour, many reaching from the top to the bottom of these old drives. The mineral is very brittle; and associated with it there is epsomite in large quantities, depending from the roof and sides of the drive in dense snow-white bundles like masses of fine-spun silk. The mineral filaments possess a silky lustre, and vary from 4in. to Bin. long In other parts of the mines there is a dark-green sulphate of iron, which is only found in drives where the reefs or veins have contained large quantities of iron-pyrites. The water dropping from the roof forms stalactites ‘varying in size but not in colour. This variety is much harder than the former, and as brittle as glass. There can be no doubt but that this formation is caused by the decomposition of iron-pyrites; and, although sulphate of iron is extensively used in the manufacture of manures, some of this sent for analysis was found to contain so much acid as to be of no commercial value. Its composition is as follows: FeSO, -+ 7 H,0, equal to sulphur-trioxide 28-8, iron-protoxide 25:9, water 45:3, m 100 paris. Arr, LVIII.—Notes on some Rocks from Campbell Island. ' By R. Spxiaut, M.A. B.Sc. (Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.) ‘Tumse rocks were collected on Campbell Island by Mr. James Gordon, who forwarded them by Dr. Cockayne to the Can- terbury Museum, with the object, I believe, of having them examined for gold. Campbell Island was formerly believed to contain mineral deposits, and whalers stated that tin was found there. Though there is no absolute impossibility that