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As to the Aborigines, tliey seemed congregated in some locali- 

 ties, but appeared sparsely distributed ; and though some were 

 friendly, others seemed as treacherous as those who offered poor 

 Kennedy as a martyr to Colonial exploration. 



I have had an opportunity of inspecting hastily a considerable 

 portion of the fossils collected by Mr. W. Ilann and Mr. Norman 

 Taylor, which were kindly submitted to me by the Queensland 

 Minister for "Works, on their way to the Agent-General in 

 London. The principal portion consisted of Mesozoic genera and 

 species of lower Cretaceous and Jurassic ages, among which were 

 a Crioceras, several Ammonites, Belemnites, and other shells ; 

 and many of these I can identify with the fossils in my own 

 collection, from the more southern and western great Secondary 

 formations of Queensland. That area is indicated by the brown 

 colour on the map I exhibited in this room in 1872, and which I 

 again pi'oduce. 



Although there is nothing actually new to Queensland Gleology 

 in some of these Mesozoic species, yet inasmuch as their existence 

 proves the former extension of the Secondary formations far to 

 the north of previous discoveries, they are entitled to great con- 

 sideration ; and, if I cannot exhibit them to-night (because I have 

 already forwarded them to England), I can at least supplement 

 the evidence by showing you some of the species from other parts 

 of Queensland, which, having been just received back from 

 England, whither I sent them for examination, description and 

 comparison with European species, are to be considered as the 

 typical Australian representatives of various Jurassic and lower 

 Cretaceous animals. 



Of the kind assistance I have received in connection with 

 these from geological friends at Home, I have before spoken in 

 various publications ; but I have not been able till now to exhibit 

 them as the authenticated species which are named on the labels 

 I have attached to them. It may be interesting to some here 

 present to see how far upwards in the zoological scale we have 

 been able to carry out Australian evidence. Of this, however, I 



