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structure and former condition of this continent to follow the 

 example of those friends in the other Colonies who have already 

 assisted me, and to forward me such fossils, whether shells or 

 corals, or whatever they may meet with of fossil organisms, in 

 order that wo may, as soon as possible, be able to complete the 

 Palseontological history of tliis Colony, which, in some respects, 

 is yet defective, and in which men of science at home are equally 

 interested with ourselves. Many persons living in the very 

 heart of rich Palaeontological treasures are not, perhaps, aware of 

 their scientific value ; and if I may be pardoned for the expression 

 I would say they do not recognize the duty they owe to the 

 world in the endeavour to make them known. 



Mr. Etheridge, in reference to one of the fossils, has this 

 remark : — " I figure it, like many other forms, to draw the atten- 

 tion of Australian geologists to the Lamellibranchiata of the 

 PalaBozoic rocks of Queensland and elsewhere, through the con- 

 tinent, in the hope that search may be made for more perfect 

 specimens." 



I cannot forbear quoting from another passage in his most valu- 

 able Appendix to Mr. Daintree's paper, respecting an additional 

 series of fossils from Queensland forwarded by Mr. "W". Haun : — 

 " Nearly the whole," he says, " are Cretaceous. The localities 

 from which they are derived are Bowen Downs, head of the 

 Thomson Eiver, Tower Hill and Barcoo Eiver beds, near Tambo." 

 " These interesting fossils will receive further elucidation ; it was, 

 however, deemed of sufficient interest to thus notice their occur- 

 rence, which bears out geographically the distribution of the 

 Cretaceous series previously noticed, and confirms the view taken 

 of the great westerly extension of the Cretaceous rocks through 

 the plains of Queensland, thus, perhaps, accoxmtiug for the uni- 

 versally and widely spread level land in the western plains." 



In his Appendix the learned Palfeontologist has given his view 

 of the " Succession of the Stratified Eocks of Queensland," an en- 

 larged copy of Avhich I also introduce as likely to aftord instruction 

 to those who may look for it, but who also may be unable to obtain 

 it otherwise except from a repetition in this way. And this, let it 



