432 Obituary— Richard Baintree, C.M.G., F.G.8. 



that I am now a martyr to chronic dyspepsia ; and, thanks to 

 sedentary employment in London, and the fog and damp of the 

 English climate, I managed to get congestion of the lungs, with 

 more or less liEemorrhage several times, so that, at an age when I 

 ought to be availing myself of my accumulated experience in 

 various ways, I find myself a confirmed invalid, cut off from all 

 active enterprise whatever." 



A large proportion of the valuable results of Daintree's work in 

 Australia were nearly lost through the wreck of the ship (on 

 board which he and his collections were stowed) at the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Fortunately, however, the cases were recovered, and 

 their contents supplied the material for the most exhaustive paper 

 yet published ^ on Queensland Geology. One of the chief points 

 there brought out was the great extent of ground occupied by rocks 

 of Cretaceous age in the north of Australia, for although Cretaceous 

 fossils had been determined some years before by Prof. M'Coy, Mr. 

 Daintree appears to have been the first to point out the extent of the 

 beds containing them. During the last few years of his life, when 

 incapacitated by illness from active exertion, the microscope afforded 

 Mr. Daintree much enjoyment, his attention being particularly 

 directed to the subject of Petrology, more particularly as applied to 

 Queensland rocks. We are informed that at the time of his death 

 he had in preparation an important work on this subject. 



An accomplished photographer, Mr. Daintree exhibited a fine series 

 of Photographs at the Edinburgh Meeting of the British Association 

 in 1871, and read a short paper '^ illustrated by them. His last 

 scientific communication was read to the Geological Society of 

 London on February 20 of this year.^ 



Eichard Daintree was an enthusiastic man of science, and especially 

 devoted himself to Geology, Chemistry, and Photography ; a man of 

 great determination and strength of character; methodical and 

 practical in all his habits ; a genial companion, a true friend, and a 

 most conscientious servant of the Crown. He has unfortunately 

 passed from amongst us at a time when, had he retained his health, 

 his vast knowledge of Australian Geology would have been of 

 inestimable value to Science, especially to that branch to which he 

 had more particularly devoted himself, the origin and occurrence of 

 Gold. His memory will long linger in the minds of his many close 

 and intimate friends, and in none more than those who had the 

 pleasure of his acquaintance during the active years of his life, and 

 who shared with him some of the dangers and difficulties of "bush 

 life," which have, we fear, in a great measure tended to shorten the 

 career of one of the most accomplished of Australian Geologists. 



E. E., JuN. 



^ Notes on the Geology of Queensland. By E. Daintree, F.G.S. "With an 

 Appendix, containing Descriptions of the Fossils, by E. Etheridge, F.E.S., and "W". 

 Carruthers, F.E.S. Quart. Joiu-n. Geol. Soc. 1872, vol. xsviii. pp. 271-360, Maps 

 and Plates, etc. 



2 On the General Geology of Queensland. Brit. Assoc. Eeport for 1871, pt. 2, p. 95. 



^ " Notes on Certain Modes of Occun-ence of Gold in Australia." 



