Art. XVIII. — On a Collection of Upjier Palaeozoic and 

 Mesozoic Fossils from West Australia and 

 Queensland, in the National Museum, Melbourne. 



By FREDERICK CHAPMAN, A.L.S., <fec., 

 National Museum. 



(Plates XXVII.-XXX.). 



[Read 8th December, 1903]. 



Introductory Remarks. 



The fossils enumerated or described in this paper consist of a 

 series of plant and various invertebrate remains, chiefly mollusca, 

 sent in March, 1866, by the Hon. Sir (then Mr.) A. C. Gregory, 

 K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., to Mr. Richard Daintree, F.G.S. The 

 latter forwarded them, with others of his own collecting, to 

 Professor F. M'Coy, for the National Museum collection. 



We are, in this paper, chiefly concerned with the specimens 

 from the Gregory collection. These fossils were not localised, 

 but bore numerals referring them to sets from various districts. 

 Two of the localities from whence they came were mentioned in 

 a letter accompanying the collection, from Mr. A. C. Gregory to 

 INIr. Daintree, dated 6th March, 1866, and which runs as 

 follows : — 



" I send you a few of the fossils from the West Coast in 

 forming a flat-topped range 600 to 800 feet high. Sandstone, 

 hititude 28° 20'. The specimens are from the upper beds of rock, 

 shale and limestone alternate and rest on gneiss-rock, which is 

 rich in mineral veins, several being worked for copper and lead. 

 Inland of this range is a valley 50 miles wide, occupied by 

 Carboniferous rocks and beds of coal resting on limestone, which 

 closely resemble the lower beds on the Hunter River ; these seem 

 to rest on a thin bed of old slate without trace of fossils, and 

 below it the granite, which forms the main table-land of West 

 Australia." 



