CHAPTER XLVIII 

 DAINTREE, 1863-71 



DAINTREE ON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF VICTORIA, 1854-6 AND 1858-64. VISITS 

 QUEENSLAND, 1863. PROSPECTING AROUND MARYVALE. DISCOVERY OF GOLD 

 ON BROKEN RIVER, BURDEKIN VALLEY. PARTNERSHIP WITH WILLIAM HANN IN 

 MARYVALE STATION, 1864. PAPER BY REV. W. B. CLARKE ON " THE AURIFEROUS 

 AND METALLIFEROUS DISTRICTS OF NORTH QUEENSLAND," 1867, BASED ON DAIN- 

 TREE'S NOTES. DAINTREE'S DISCOVERY OF " LYND " COPPER MINE, EINASLEIGH 

 RIVER. RICH, BUT NOT PAYABLE UNDER THEN-EXISTING CONDITIONS. MODERN 

 RAILWAY FACILITIES. APPOINTED GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST FOR NORTH QUEENS- 

 LAND, 1868. REPORT ON CAPE RIVER GOLD DIGGINGS. LEADS PROSPECTORS TO 

 SCENE OF HIS GOLD DISCOVERIES ON GILBERT AND PERCY RIVERS, 1869. 

 GlLBERTON TOWNSHIP ESTABLISHED, 1869. GOLD ON DfiLANY CREEK AND 

 ETHERIDGE RIVER. DISCONTINUANCE OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. REPORTS ON 

 RAVENSWOOD, MOUNT WYATT AND CAPE RIVER GOLDFIELDS, 1870. COLLECTING 

 SPECIMENS FOR LONDON EXHIBITION, 1870. To LONDON WITH MINERAL EXHIBITS, 

 1871. APPOINTED AGENT-GENERAL. " NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COLONY 

 OF QUEENSLAND," 1872. A GEOLOGICAL CLASSIC, WITH FIRST GEOLOGICAL MAP 

 OF QUEENSLAND. FAILING HEALTH. DEATH, 1878. 



1T\ICHARD DAINTREE 1 was born in Huntingdonshire in 



1^ 1831, and came to Victoria in 1852, and resided in that 



JL m* Colony till 1864. From 1854 to 1856, and again from 



1858 to 1864, he was a member of Selwyn's Geological 



Survey of Victoria. 



In 1863 he visited Queensland, and spent some time in exploring 

 and prospecting, from Maryvale, a tributary of the Clarke River, 

 one of the principal heads of the Burdekin River. His observa- 

 tions were printed in the Yeoman (29th August, 1863), and contained 



1 Map of Croydon and Etheridge Goldfields, 1911. Geological Survey Publication, 

 No. 230. The " Lynd " (now the " Einasleigh ") Copper Mine is the Mineral Area, 

 " No. 55. Etheridge Goldfield " shown on this map. 



" On the Auriferous and Metalliferous Districts of Northern Queensland," by the 

 Rev. W. B. Clarke, read gth September, 1867 (a " Communication " of Daintree's 

 information, dated 23rd July, 1867). Trans. Roy. Soc. New South Wales, Vol. I, p. 42. 



" Report by Richard Daintree on the Cape River Diggings, and the latest Mineral 

 Discoveries in Northern Queensland," dated October, 1868. Leg. Ass. Papers, Session 

 1868-9. 



" Report by Mr. Richard Daintree, Govt. Geologist, Northern Queensland, on Gold 

 Discoveries in the Gilbert Ranges." Dated Forty-one Mile Creek, Gilbert Ranges, 

 7th April, 1869. Leg. Ass. Papers for 1869, Vol. II. 



" Progress Report by Mr. Richard Daintree, Govt. Geologist, Northern Districts." 

 Dated Gilbert Ranges, 2Oth April, 1869. Leg. Ass. Papers for 1869. 



" Report on the Gilbert Ranges Goldfields by Richard Daintree, Govt. Geologist, 

 Northern Queensland." Dated Maryvale, i8th June, 1869. Leg. Ass. Papers for 1869. 



" General Report on the Northern District by Richard Daintree." Dated Maryvale, 

 2nd February, 1870. Leg. Ass. Papers for 1870. 



" Report by Mr. Richard Daintree, late Govt. Geologist, North Queensland, on the 



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