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have yet soinetliing more to say. I must now add that, with the 

 fossils mentioned from the Mitchell and Walsh E-ivers, there were 

 in the collection sent to me by the Hon. W. H. Walsh several 

 very minute fossils ; among them a beautiful foraminiferous shell, 

 and several others to which no clue was given as to actual 

 locality. I do not, at present, know whether any of these were 

 supposed to be of the Carboniferous age ; they exhibit, however, 

 a proof of another formation besides those mentioned already. 



Moreover, there was included with the above a very fine 



centrum of the vertebral bone of some gigantic Saurian reptile, 

 which did not appear to me to be that of an Icthyosauras. The 

 only illustration of it I can now offer is a photograph kindly 

 made for me at the Museum. These, and some bones (not in good 

 condition) of Diprotodon, and, probably, of a species allied to 

 Wombat, and some small Marsupials — with a few specimens of 

 agate, limestone, basalt, &c. — are gone home to be immortalized in 

 the records of Science, and exhibited to British geologists in the 

 Annexe to the Exhibition building in London. Whatever may 

 be their actual value to theoretical Palseontology, these things 

 furnish an additional testimony. to the fact of the wide distribu- 

 tion of the relics of the peculiar mammalian creatures that are 

 now known to have existed from the south to the north of Eastern 

 Australia, and which must have lived very close up to, if not into, 

 the recent epoch to which we ourselves belong. 



QuEEySLA>'D MeSOZOIC EoSSILS. 



The collection which I sent to Mr. Moore, of Bath, E.Gr.S., who 

 kindly reported on it iu his paper on " Australian Mesozoic 

 Greology," read before the Greological Society in 1870, embraced 

 no less than eighty-nine species, of which eight at least are also 

 European. It is from this collection that the specimens on the 

 table have been selected. Many others in my possession iu 

 addition to the collection spoken of, have not yet been examined ; 

 but those, and the collection from the Mitchell and Walsh Eivers, 

 will swell the amount of species considerably. As Mr. Moore 

 included in his paper, from his own collections, fifty-sis species 



