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of Liassic and Oolitic fossils from Western Australia, of wHch 

 twenty-four are also indigenous to Britisla or other European 

 districts, — and as I have also already numerous uncompared fossils 

 from that distant Colony, received from the Colonial Secretary, 

 the Hon. P. P. Barlee, and the Eev. J. C. Nicolay, — the list of 

 these Secondary fossils, ranging from the lower Cretaceoiis 

 downwards to the Lias, will doubtless ere long be greatly 

 extended, both by purely Australian species, and by those which 

 have a more cosmopolitan range ; the latter, in some degree, 

 linking this continent, as the fossils of the Palaeozoic formations 

 also do, to the world north of the Equator. 



A more recent service has also been performed by the " Notes 

 on the Geology of Queensland," read before the Greological 

 Society, in April, 1872, by my friend Mr. Daintree, illiistrated by 

 the description of fossils by Mr. Etheridge, P. U.S., and Mr. 

 Carruthers, P.H.S. This was published in the Quarterly Journal, 

 in August, 1872. Among the fossils are those I mentioned in 

 my last Address (p. 37) as having been sent home by me to Mr. 

 Daintree, in consequence of his loss by shipwreck. Mr. Etheridge 

 describes thirty-eight new forms, of which ten are common to 

 England and Queensland. Of these, fifteen are Devonian marine 

 species from Gympie : five from the Barwon Eiver, six from the 

 Don Eiver, one from Wealwandangie, and two from Cracow 

 Creek (all Carboniferous). Of Mesozoic fossils the -list contains 

 six from the lower Oolite, at Gordon Downs ; and, belonging to 

 the Cretaceous system, fifteen species from Maryborough, five 

 from Marathon, two from Hughenden, and one from M'Kinlay's 

 Eange. 



As Mr. Daintree acknowledges the above contributions made 

 by myself, from Gordon Downs, Cracow Creek, Wealwandangie, 

 and the Don Eiver, it is my duty to transfer the acknowledgment 

 to the gentlemen who, at my request, procured them for me from 

 the respective localities, in order that I might have them de- 

 scribed. And here I would earnestly entreat the assistance of all 

 who are interested in the full development of the physical 



