BY R. C. RINGROSE, M.A. 201 
had been made by Mr. Aplin,* these reports only dealt with 
small districts and have remained buried to those who wished 
to study the literature of the subject. It is true there were 
observations on geology in the reports of some of the earlier 
explorers, and references had been made to the geology of 
Queensland by the Rev. W. B. Clarke and one or two others, 
but with these exceptions up to the year 1872, the year in 
which Mr. Daintree published his paper ‘‘ On the Geology of 
Queensland,”+ the geology of Queensland remained in darkness. 
In 1872 Mr. Daintree read this paper before the Geological 
Society of London, and his paper still remains the only 
attempt to deal with the subject as a whole. In it 
Mr. Daintree sums up all the observations of himself and 
other observers, and gives a general view of the geology 
of the whole colony with the exception of the Cape York 
Peninsula. Although many of the conclusions of Mr. 
Daintree will, no doubt, have to be modified, still this paper is 
likely to be the only source of information on the geology of 
Queensland for many years to come. 
Since the date of Mr. Daintree’s paper, almost the only worker, 
in geology at least, whose conclusions are accessible to the 
student, is the Rev. J. HE. Tenison-Woods, who has pub_ 
lished during the last few years several papers on the 
geology of both North and South Queensland. Amongst these 
are included papers on the Geology of North Queensland, the 
Hodgkinson Goldfield, the Wild River, Tin Mines in the north 
and south of Queensland, on fossiliferous beds at the Endeavour 
River, on the Burrum Coalfield, on Queensland Coalfields, as 
well as a paper published in the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales, Vol. vu, p. 95, on the “ Fossil 
* Vide “The Mineral Products of N.S.W., with Notes on the Geology of 
N.S.W., and Catalogue of Works on Australian Geology,” by C. T. 
Wilkinson and R. L. Jack, Dept. of Mines, N.S.W. 
+ Q. J. Geol. Soc., Vol. xxviii., p. 271. 
