vi PREFACE. 



for the never-tiring zeal and energy, the self-denial of all 

 home-comforts, and risk of health displayed by the pioneers 

 of our common science in the Australian colonies, and of whose 

 work, often carried on under the most adverse circumstances, 

 the Catalogue is an epitome. 



I refer to such men as the late S. Stutchbury, the late 

 Kev. W. B. Clarke, F.R.S., the late Capt. Sturt, the late 

 Sir T. L. Mitchell, the late L. Leichhardt, A. R. C. Selwyn, 

 F.R.S., C. Gould, F.G.S., Prof. F. M'^Coy, F.G.S., the late 

 W. Blandowski, Baron F. von Mueller, the late C. D'Oyly, H. 

 Aplin, Norman Taylor, G. H. F. Ulrich, F.G.S., E. B. Smyth, 

 F.G.S., the late K Daintree, F.G.S., C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., 

 Kev. J. E. T. Woods, F.G.S., R. A. F. Murray, H. Y. L. Brown, 

 A. W. Howitt, F.G.S., G. Krefft, and others. 



The object of the Catalogue of Australian Fossils is first, 

 to give as complete a list as possible of the fossil Organic 

 Remains of the Australian Continent, arranged in Strati- 

 graphical and Zoological order; secondly, to indicate all the 

 descriptions, figures, and more important references to each 

 of the species ; and thirdly, to point out the principal localities. 



In carrying out this scheme it has been found most con- 

 venient to divide the Catalogue into five stratigraphical sub- 

 divisions, viz., Silurian, Middle and Upper Palaeozoic (including 

 the Devonian and Carboniferous), Mesozoic, Tertiary, and 

 Post-Tertiary, in each of which the genera and species are 

 arranged zoologically in classes, and alphabetically in order, for 

 convenient reference. 



Each page is subdivided vertically into four columns. 



The first (that on the left hand of the reader) contains 

 the name of the species and their authors ; the second column 

 is intended for the stratigraphical subdivisions of the respective 

 sections in which the species occurs; the third and largest 

 column is devoted to the bibliographical references, whilst 

 the fourth contains the localities. 



At the head of each page, on the left hand, is given in dark 

 type and within brackets the name of the class to which ail 

 the genera contained in that page belong, whilst, in the 

 corresponding comer, on the opposite side of the page, is 

 similarly given the geological section of the work. 



After the name of each genus is given that of its author 



