32 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS ,j 
The following Papers were read :— 
A CATALOGUE, OF 
SUCH MINERALS AS ARE AT PRESEr 
KNOWN IN QUEENSLAND, 
WITH, THEIR. PRINCIPAL, ASSOGIATIGN:S 
AND PLACES OF ‘(OCCURENCE ; 
BY 
EDWD. B. LINDON, A.R.S.M.; 
INTRODUCTION. 
On presenting to the Royal Society of Queensland this catalogue 
of such minerals as are present known in Queensland, with their 
associations, and the principal localities of their occurrence, I 
wish to give expression to a certain diffidence which I felt on 
beginning the task, and which increased as the work proceeded, 
such being due to my knowledge that there are perhaps other 
men more competent to carry out the matter in hand. However, 
as it has seemed to me for some time necessary that there should 
be some list or compilation relating to our Queensland minerals, 
and as no one seemed likely to come forward and make such 
compilation, I have, not without trepidation, expended some time 
and thought on it and the result I shall hand you to-night. 
In making this catalogue I have had at my disposal various 
reports on the geology of different parts of Queensland, written by 
Messrs. Gregory, D’Oyley Aplin, Rands, and Jack, Mr. Daintree’s 
papers on the Geology of Queensland, read before the Royal 
Geological Society of London, and Mr. A. W. Clarke’s catalogue 
of the minerals sent to the Queensland Court of the Colonial and 
Indian Exhibition, and the report on these minerals which was 
printed in the Mining Fournal. In acknowledging my indebted- 
ness to these various sources of information, I would wish to pay 
a’tribute to the masterly scientific reports by Mr. R. L. Jack; his 
observations are always acute, and his deductions therefrom are 
