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and Floraville. I have not been down the Leichhardt below 

 Mittigoody Creek (forty miles above Floraville), but I know 

 enough of the country to say that the Lower Cretaceous lime- 

 stones last seen at Kamilaroy become, as one follows the river 

 down, more and more buried beneath sandy drifts, and that I 

 have never heard of any basaltic rocks in the district. 



In " Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland." page 608, 

 I wrote, in 1892 : — " Taking the Mary vale. Peak Downs, and 

 Darling Downs localities, from which remains of the extinct 

 mammalia have been obtained, it will be seen that all these 

 places are at considerable elevations, none of them being less 

 than 900ft. above the sea level. Caiwaroo, where Mr. Cotter's 

 fossils have been obtained, must be about 400ft. above the sea. 

 The doubtful instance of Gogango Creek would, however, bring 

 the fossils down to 315ft. The only instance of which I am 

 aware of remains of the exthict mammalia having been obtained 

 near the sea level is that of the Eight-Mile Plains, near Brisbane." 



While the work was going through the press, I added a 

 note (page 740) : — " The only organic remains yet identified are 

 those of Ceratodus Fosteri and Pallmnarclius pollens — a fish and 

 a reptile, both of living species, [d) The case, then, still stands 

 thus, that the known remains of extinct mammalia have all 

 been derived from comparatively liigh levels, whatever signifi- 

 cance the fact may have." 



The significance of the supposed fact was, of course, that 

 the reason for the absence of the extinct mammalia from lower 

 levels than, say, 315ft. (Gogango), was that, at the period when 

 the fauna in question flourished, the land stood, say, 315ft. 

 lower than at present, or in other words that since then it has 

 risen 315ft. This is disproved by the recent discovery of 

 Zi/ffomaturm at Floraville, which is probably not over 100ft. 

 above the sea level. 



I may mention that in May last Mr. A. Gibb Maitland and 

 I carefully collected from the King's Creek bone beds the mol- 

 luscan fauna associated with the bones. These were sent to Mr, 

 R. Etheridge, jmi., of the Australian Museum, Sydney, my 



{d) I am obliged to add further corrections. Mr. De Vis informs me 

 that he is not certain of the specific identity of the Ceratodus with C. Fosteri. 

 Pallimnarchux pollens was erroneously referred to as a living species, 

 although elsewhere classed with the extinct {Op. cit. p. 638). 



