148 MESOZOIC FOSSILS FROM THE PALMER RIVER, QUEENSLAND, 
formation existed in Australia. Previous to this Mr. A. Gregory ' 
had, in a paper read before the Geological Society of London,* 
vol. xxvi, for 1870, p. 226), on Australian Mesozoic Geology and 
Paleontology. In this paper many species were descri 
figured, and it is undoubtedly the most valuable contribution to 
the palzontology of Australian mesozoic rocks that has yet been 
made. In 1872 Mr. R. Daintree published in the same Society's 
Journal, vol. xxvii, p. 271, a very lengthy report on the geology of 
Queensland. In the appendix to this paper Mr. R. Etheridge des 
cribed and figured a number of Cretaceous fossils from various parts 
of the interior of the Colony. In February, 1880, Mr. R. Etheridge 
jun., read before the Royal Physical Society of rae be i 
Queensland. In this essay there are full descriptions and figures 
of many paleozoic fossils, besides figures and description (plate li, 
figs. 55 to 58) of a new Cretaceous C'rioceras (Cc. jacks) which was 
found by Mr. Jack in the mountain sources of the river Tate, not 
Record for 1881 I announced the discovery of a new bed of cretaceous — 
fossils on the Burnett River in Queensland. This list includes all 
the palzontological literature on the mesozoic rocks known t me 
There is one circumstance connected with most of the fossils 
described as Cretaceous in the foregoing papers, which is that the 
beds in which they occur are rarely described. This has 
partly from the fact that the specimens have been collected by 
those who knew little of geology, and they have frequently “J 
through two or three hands before reaching the geologist who a 
scribed them. But there is another reason for this. In 
un 
tirely unconnected with any beds or strata. This is th 
believe, with the fossils found in the Tate River. In the 
those now to be described from the Palmer River, abo 
north of the Tate, the same thing is observed. In th 
the stream, which runs through granite and paleeozoic ¥ 
laid by recent trap and Desert Sandstone, large nodules 
* Quart, Jour. Geol. Soc., Lond., vol. xvii, 1861, p. 475. ? 
