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DESCRIPTION OF A SMALL COLLECTION 

 OF TASMANIAN SILURIAN FOSSILS PRE- 

 SENTED TO THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 

 BY MR. A. MONTGOMERY, M.A., GOVERN- 

 MENT GEOLOGIST, TASMANIA, 



BY 



R. ETHERIDGE, JUN«, 



Curator^ Australian Museum^ Sydney. 

 Plate. 



(Reprinted from the Secretary for Mines' Report.) 



1.— INTRODUCTION. 



80:*.:^ time ago, Mr. A. Montgomery, M.A., Govern- 

 ment Geologist of Tasmania, presented to the Australian 

 Museum a small collection of Silurian fossils from Zeehan 

 and Heazlewood. 



As so little is at present known of the organic remains 

 occurring in the sedimentary rocks of these important 

 mineral fields, a few notes on their affinities may not be 

 out of place, notwithstanding the very poor state of pre- 

 servation of the fossils. However, any facts that may be 

 evolved from their elaboration will perhaps be of use to 

 future investigators who may have the good fortune to 

 take up the subject hereafter. 



'^Fhe occurrence of organic remains at the above localities 

 does not appear to have come under the notice of Mr. R. 

 M. Johnston at the time he wrote his valuable work, 

 " The Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania;"^ 

 perhaps even they had not been discovered, and all that 

 I know on the subject is gleaned from the official Reports 

 of Messrs. Thureau and Montgomery. 



• Quarto, Hobart, 1888, (By Authority.) 



