RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Of the Geological Society," for lSU^ followe.! in the next 

 vear ^1845) by republicati..n in the "Quarterly Journal. - 

 A notice of the reading of Prof. BelPs P^P-N ^-wever, 

 appeared in - Annals of Natural History"-^' tor lb44, and n. 

 this brief notice the fossil is termed Tln,la>^.n,a a.tnjna. in 

 compiling his - Index Palpeontologicus," Dr. H. G. Bronn, 

 evidently unaware of Bell's papers proper, adopted the un- 

 authoris;d name n.t;,,un^ for the Austrahan sab-foss.l. In h)s 

 papers Prof. Bell frankly confessed Ins mab^hty to distinguish 

 bur little difference between his T. nn.ri; an.l the recent /. 

 aniniiiiht, Herbst. 



The collector spoken of as '^ Mr. Emery," was no doubt l.ieut 

 lames B Kmery, H.N., an officer of H.M.S. " Beadle, during hei 

 : > -ati of the nor'th and west coasts of Australia between 

 1837-1848, under Commander J. l.ort Stokes ^ Now, as the 

 -Beaffle" visited Shoal Bay, contiguous to Anson Bay from 

 where most of our examples come, it is quite possible the type 

 r;!ecimen was obtained from one or another of the nch deposits 

 in the extreme north-west. 



From 1845 (mwards n.a,hing more appears to have been 

 written on Australian sub-fossil Crustacea until 1866,^ when 

 Mr S H Wintle described two crabs from an estuarine deposit 

 Tt the mouth of the Yarra River, Hobson's Bay; one he called 

 /'A '/Xr/,sand the other ^^u.^ sp.,^ and associated with them 

 were the remains of the Freshwater Crayfish (h.^.-o;... /n,..- 

 lim McCoy). These were "found m nodules of a high ) 

 ealcare 1 s cement occurring in great abundance m the old 

 et uarine bed of the river Yarra Yarra, which has been exposed 

 fn evcavating for docks, and also in the cutting ?«; '».e Coode 

 Inal at Fisherman's Bend." In the sa^e year Mr. Wintle 

 eac^ a paper before the Royal Society of Tasmama o as. m,W 

 nature, wherein he named two forms-MMV, ,.na.n.,. and 

 v. haswelli. 



1 Bell— Proc. Geol. Soc, iv., 1844, p. 360, fig. 



2 Bell-Quart Jour. Geol. Soc. i., 1845, p. 93. fig. 

 s Ann. Nat. Hist., xiv., 1844, p. 455. 



4 Bronn— Index Pal., i., 2. 1848, p. 1265. 



i Stokes— Discoveries in Australia, ii., 1846, p. 93. 



« Wintle-Vict. Nat., iii., 1886, p. 110. 



- Wintle-Proc. H. Soc. Tasm. for 1886 (1887). p. 233. 



