THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE III. VOL. VII. 



No. III.— MARCH, 1890. 



OEIG-IUAL ./^IRTXOILjIKJS. 



I. — Notes on the Palaeontology of Western Australia. 

 Introductory. 



APART of the fossils described in the accompanying paper were 

 presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the 

 late Mr. Edward T. Hardman, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.L, in December, 

 1886 ; : having been collected by him during his exploration of the 

 Kimberley District of Western Australia, in 1883. Some additional 

 specimens, forming a part of this collection, have been obligingly 

 forwarded to me by Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., Director 

 of the Geological Survey of Ireland; having been found, since Mr. 

 Hardman's death, in the Survey Office, Dublin. 



A collection of Carboniferous Fossils has since been received 

 from Mr. Harry P. Woodward, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., the Government 

 Geologist for Western Australia, which were obtained by him 

 whilst exploring the Gascoyne River District and the Victoria Dis- 

 trict of the Irwin River. I have, moreover, been favoured with a 

 fine slab of sandstone, full of shells of Spirifera lata, M'Coy (Plate 

 VI.), from the Carboniferous formation of the Lyons River, Western 

 Australia; collected by the Hon. John Forrest, C.M.G., arid for- 

 warded to me by the Rev. J. G. Nicolay, of Fremantle, to whom I 

 am already indebted for the opportunity of describing the spine of 

 Edestus Davisii from the Carboniferous of the same region (see 

 Geol. Mag. 1886, Dec. III. Vol. III. pp. 1-7, PI. I.). 



The descriptions of the Brachiopoda, Mollusca, etc., have been 

 most carefully drawn up by Mr. Arthur H. Foord, F.G.S. (late 

 Assistant-Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada) ; a 

 brief note on the Plant-remains is given by Mr. R. Kidston, F.R.S.E., 

 F.G.S. A description of the Stromatoporoids in the Collection by 

 Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., F.G.S., and of the Corals and 

 Polyzoa by Dr. George J. Hinde, F.G.S., will follow. 



On behalf of my son (Mr. Harry P. Woodward) I have to express 

 my thanks to these gentlemen for their most, valuable contributions 

 towards the description of the fossils of Western Australia, and to 

 my friend Mr. Robert Etheridge, jun., Palaeontologist to the Austra- 

 lian Museum, Sydney, N. S. Wales, for kindly allowing me to con- 

 sult the proofs of plates and explanations thereof in MS., of his as 

 yet unpublished work, with Mr. R. L. Jack, F.G.S. (Government 

 Geologist), on the Fossils of Queensland, Australia, many of which 

 bear a very close resemblance to those' of Western Australia. 



British Museum (Natural History), Henry WOODWARD. 



Cromwell Road, Feb. 15, 1890. 



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