590 presidej^t's address. 



Rockhampton, aud iu marine strata of Gympie Age at the Hodg- 

 kinson gold field.* 



B. The Star Formation. — In the type district shales, con- 

 glomerates, sandstone and thin limestone attain a thickness of 

 1353 feet. Lepidodendron australe, McCoy, occurs throughout 

 half that thickness, and at the junction of Corner Creek with the 

 Great Star Hiver L. veUheimia7ium, Sternb.. is associated with it. 

 The oldest foraminiferal limestone at present known in Australia 

 occurs in this formation at Bogantungan. It is only about one 

 foot in thickness, and is composed chiefly of shells of undescribed 

 foraminifera.f 



At the Keelbottom River contemporaneous amygdaloidal dole- 

 rites and porphyrites are interbedded with the Star Series. The 

 porphyrites contain large masses of native copper, like the dolerites 

 of the Lake Superior Region of North America. 



At the Cape River Leioidodf.ndron australe, Cyclostigma sp. 

 and a Palseoniscid fish, probably Falceoniscus itself, have been 

 found in rocks belonging to the Star Series. | In the Drummond 

 Range at Bogantungan these beds are at least 2000 feet thick 

 and contain § abundant fish remains in nodules. These have been 

 described by Mr. R. Etheridge, junr.|| 



The late Mr. James Smith of Rockhampton is quoted by Messrs. 

 Jack and Etheridgell as stating that these fish must have been in 

 incredible numbers, like a herring shoal. 



Among the fossil plants of the Star Series may be specially 

 mentioned** Lepidodendron australe, McCoy, Calamites varians, 

 Germar, Cyclostigma australe, Feist., (?) Cyclostigma sp.. Feist., 



* Geology of Queensland, Jack and Etheridge, loc. cit. p. 115. 

 + Geology of Queensland, Jack and Etheridge, p. 131. 

 X Geology of Queensland, Jack and Etheridge, p. 136. 

 § Loc. cit. p. 138. 

 II " Note on the Occurrence of Fish Remains iu the Rocks of the Drum- 

 mond Range, Central Queensland," by R. Etheridge, junr. Records Geol. 

 Survey, New South Wales, Vol. ii. pt. 2, 1890, p. 72. 

 T Loc. cit. p. 139. 

 ** Loc. cit. p. 141. 



