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the renowned botanist between these fossils ; whereas pine forests 

 {Spundi/lostrohm !<mythii, F. v. M.) grew in damp places, and 

 the hillsides were covered with amall-leaved shrubs — like 

 Plesiocapparis prisca, F. v. M., and lllicites astrocapa, F. v. M, 



In 1878, Dr. Ottokar Feistmantel, of the Geological Survey, 

 Calcutta, published iu German the " Palaeozoic and Mesozoic 

 Flora of Eastern Australia," and in 1880 he gave some very 

 interesting notes on the fossil flora of Eastern Australia and 

 Tasmania in the New South Wales Royal Society's Proceedings. 



The foundation of the Adelaide University in 1875, and the 

 appointment of Professor Tate, brought a new era also for the 

 geology of South Australia. 



Queensland's first geological map, in 1872, was by Mr. 

 Daintree, formerly of the Victorian Geological Survey. Mr. 

 Etheridge, sen., made the palaeontological determinations. The 

 labours of Mr. Augustus Charles Gregory, the explorer, have 

 already been mentioned. The Ipswich coalfield has been a 

 special ground of exploration for this renowned geologist. 



Mr. Robert L. Jack, the Government Geologist of Queensland, 

 published in 1886 a " Handbook of Queensland Geology" for the 

 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London, Mr. Etheridge, 

 jun., formerly of the British Museum, determined the palaeon- 

 tological collection. The book, containing 107 pages, is an 

 excellent one, and has only been superseded (in 1892) by the 

 " Geology of Queensland," by the same author and Mr. Robert 

 Etheridge, jun., containing 768 pages. A coloured map on a 

 large scale mid a volume of plates are added to this grand 

 work, which — to use the words of such a competent critic as 

 Professor Tate — •' marks an event in the history of geological 

 progress in Australia. It stands uurivalled for its rich stores of 

 mformation, and for its methodical arrangement." Mr. J. H. 

 Simmonds has, in the lapse of years, made a grand collection of 

 fossils, especially from the Upper Trias- Jura around Ipswich. 

 A small number of them have been determined by Etheridge, 

 jun., including a very interesting crustaceous animal, Kstheria 

 mangaliensis, and parts of four species of fossil beetles from 

 Denmark Hill. The Rev. Tenison-Woods described and named 

 ten new species of (extinct) ferns from the Jurassic beds around 

 Ipswich, one Cycadeous plant from Rockhampton, and six new 

 species of fossil Conifer* from the Ipswich formation. 



