316 Dr. (Jr. Bennett's Search for Fossils in Queensland. 



some fossil teetli and bones procured there, and with a memorandum 

 accompanying them, dated Nov, 21, 1871, as follows: — 'The ac- 

 companying bones were dug out of a Avell which I have had made 

 in the centre of the large plain which extends from Jondaryan on 

 the Oakey Creek, on the north, to Yandilla, on the Condamine, on 

 the south. They were got at a depth of about fifty feet from the 

 sui'face, imbedded in a sort of sandy drift. It would seem to me as 

 if the head of the animal had come in the line of shaft, the rest of 

 the bones being probably on one side.' I have all these bones kept 

 together for your examination, with Mr. Simpsons memorandum 

 respecting them ; they are fine tusks, but broken, and one perfect 

 molar tooth, fj-agments of the skull, and other parts. On passing a 

 station of Mr. Simpsons, on the IGth of November, on my return 

 from Jimbour to Dalby, I met him superintending the sinking of a 

 well : no water had been found at a depth of 131 feet, but a quan- 

 tity of small fragments of fossU bones, of no utility, and some teeth ; 

 the latter were small ; he gave them to me, and they are sent to 

 you. 



" On the 14th of November, my son, Mr. G. F. Bennett, and my- 

 self left Jimbour for the Chinchilla station, the property of A. B. 

 Buchanan, M.L.A., and arrived there on the 16th. Mr. Bucha- 

 nan's superintendent was absent ; but one of the men pointed out 

 to us a rock which Mr. Buchanan supposed contained a fossil head : 

 this was not apparent ; but several other rocks of a similar forma- 

 tion cropped out of the ground about 200 yards from the Condamine 

 river, and near a deep gully which, during heavy rains, carried off 

 the Avater from the higher range of hills into the river. The parti- 

 cular rock alluded to, said to contain fossUs, was of small size, being 

 only eight feet long by six feet in breadth ; and the only fossils 

 visible were fragments imbedded in a hard grit or breccia. The 

 surface of the rock was with some force removed in flakes by the 

 use of the pick, and with them some fragments of fossils ; but the 

 mass of the rock was so very firm as to resist all our efforts, and to 

 completely blunt the edge of the pick. At this part, sloping down 

 towards the gully, a quantity of fragments of fossil bones were 

 found scattered over the surface, among which was a fossil kangaroo's 

 incisor tooth : all these are sent to you in the collection made at 

 Chinchilla, together with some tusks, teeth, &c., collected by Mr. T. 

 J. Beattie. We left Chinchilla on the morning of the loth of No- 

 vember, and arrived at Warrawarra, the station of Mr. Henry Thome, 

 who informed me that he had a long time since some fossil bones, 

 which he supposed were still about the house ; but when he went 

 in search of them, he found the children had thrown them away, he 

 could not find out where ; and thus, no doubt, many important fos- 

 sils are lost to science. He, however, very kindly (more so as they 

 were busy shearing at the time), took some men and drove with us 

 to the banks of the river Condamine, on the station, where he 

 thought some fossils might be found, when in a short time we pro- 

 cm-ed those in the collection scjit from the Warrawarra station. We 



