568 Revieics — Australian Geology. 



considered as a faithful record of Australian Paleeontology up to the 

 year 1878. 



The genera and species are primarily arranged in zoological order 

 in classes, but alphabetically under each class, for more ready and 

 convenient reference ; the whole being divided into five stratigraphi- 

 cal subdivisions, viz. : — Silurian, Middle and Upper Palgeozoic (in- 

 cluding the Devonian and Carboniferous), Mesozoic, Tertiary, and 

 Post-Tertiary. All the more important references are made to each 

 of the species, and the principal localities are also given ; those 

 works in which a detailed description or figure is to be found are 

 denoted by an asterisk placed before them. 



The great labour involved in preparing this Catalogue may be 

 partly estimated by stating that the list includes nearly 500 genera 

 and some 1450 species, and that the separate works, reports and 

 papers consulted in the preparation of this Catalogue of Australian 

 and Tasmanian Fossils amounts to more than 500 in number. 



Apart from the number of papers referred to for single species, 

 and for species identified with descriptions already published, the 

 Chronicles of Australian Palceontology have mainly been enriched by 

 the labours of Professor Owen, the Eev. J. E. Tenison Wood, Prof. 

 F. M'Coy, Prof. L. G. de Koninck, Prof. P. Martin Duncan, Eev. 

 W. B. Clarke, Prof. J. Morris, Mr. E. Etheridge, and Mr. E. Ethe- 

 ridge, jun., Mr. W. Carruthers, Mr. C. Moore, Mr. J. W. Salter, 

 Prof. Dana, and Mr. Thomas Davidson. 



The publication of this volume is due to the liberality of the 

 Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, who have thus conferred 

 a boon on the Colony of Australia and a great service to geological 

 science by enabling the author to produce in so excellent a form this 

 first attempt at a complete list of Australian Fossil Organic Eemains. 

 J. M. 



III. — Australian Geology. 



1. Annual Eeport of the Department of Mines, New South 



Wales, for the tear 1877. (Sydney, 1878.) 



2. Eemarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South 



Wales. By the Eev. W. B. Clarke, M.A., F.E.S. Fourth 

 edition. (Sydney, 1878.) 



THE Eeport of more than 200 4to. pages on Mines and Mineral 

 Products of New South Wales comprises the results of the ex- 

 plorations of the Mining Eegistrars and Geological Surveyors, carried 

 on during 1877 in the different mining districts of that colony, and 

 contains much practical and statistical information, accompanied in 

 some cases by geological maps and sections of strata. During the 

 year, locality maps of three of the principal Gold Fields have been 

 completed, representing an area of about seventy-three square miles, 

 and many valuable additions have been made to the mineral and 

 fossil collections of the Department, and a collection has also been 

 forwarded to the Paris Exhibition, illustrative of the mineral re- 

 sources and geology of the colony. The Eeport states that the 

 aggregate value of the minerals raised during the year 1877 amounts 



