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Buckland applied first in 1822 paljeontology to the strati- 

 graphical chronology of the Australian rocks, as he compared 

 coal and shale with plant impressions, and stated that there was 

 an analogy between the coal formation of the Hunter River and 

 that of England, whilst certain fossiliferous rocks from Hobart 

 are described as nearly related, if not identical with those of the 

 mountain limestone of England and Ireland. In 1825 

 Alexander Berry gave the geology of a part of New South 

 Wales in " Field's Geographical Memoirs." Adolphe Theodore 

 Brogniard, Professor of Botany in Paris, published in 1828 (at 

 the age of 27 years) the first volume of his " Histoire des 

 Vegetaux Fossiles," and describes in it .the two leading ferns 

 from the Newcastle coal measures — Glossopteris Browniana and 

 Ph yllo theca austra lis . 



Allan Cunningham, the botanist, described, in 1823, the 

 physiographic features and the leading rock structure of the 

 Blue Mountains, and discovered, in 1828, the Ipswich coal 

 formation on the Brisbane River. Sturt (1830) and Mitchell, 

 the well-known explorers, gave valuable geological information 

 of the teri-itories traversed by their expeditions. Mitchell, 

 especially, enriched the British Museum with ample palaeonto- 

 logical collections, which were worked out by specialists. The 

 Post Tertiary treasures from the caves of the Wellington Valley 

 were described by Sir Richard Owen, Professor of Anatomy and 

 Palaeontology, and from him the world heard the tale of the 

 fossil gigantic Australian marsupials, named by him Diprotodon, 

 Nototherium, and Thylacoleo. In 1845 Count Strzelecki 

 pubHshed the first book on geology of Australia under the title 

 " Physical Description of New South Wales." The exiled 

 Polish nobleman had investigated the south-eastern part of our 

 continent and had traversed 7,000 miles at his own expense. 

 The map, which is added to his book, is the first geological 

 map ever worked out on Austrahan territory. The palaeonto- 

 logical items have been done by the specialists, Lonsdale, 

 Morris, and Sowerby. 



Professor Dana, the renowned naturalist of New Haven, in 

 Connecticut, was in Sydney in 1840, and he gave a geological 

 report on Port Jackson and 60 miles around. 



In 1842 .Jukes, Geological Surveyor in Newfoundland, was 

 appointed naturalist to the steamer "Fly," for investigating the 



