Vll 
ETTEI\^ 
OF 
I\ANSMITTAL. 
Geological Survey, N. S. Wales, 
Department of Mines, 
Sydney, 25 March, 1892. 
Sir, 
It becomes my duty to submit for publication the accompanying 
Memoir, No. 5, of the Faheontolo(jical Series of the Geological Survey, 
being Part II of the Carboniferous and Fermo- Carboniferous Inrertebrula 
of New South Wales,’ by^ Mr. Ilobert Etheridge, Junr., Pabcontologist. 
The present Memoir deals with the representatives — hitherto found in 
the above-named formations — of three Classes, viz., Echinodermata, Annelida, 
and Crustacea, and it will be found to comprise twenty-nine species, of which 
no less than seventeen species, new to science, have been named, figured, and 
described. 
The IVork is another illustration of the untiring industry of Mi-. 
Etheridge in the domain in which his previous exertions have already made 
his name so well known amongst Scientists. The importance of such work in 
conngetion witli the mapping of the Carboniferous areas of the Colony is too 
obvious to need comment by me, and it will lend additional interest to the 
Geological Survey of the Newcastle and Maitland Coal-field, which has 
recently been completed by Professor T. W. E. David, B.A., E.G.S., whose 
map and report will, it is hoped, be soon issued. 
The illustrations reflect great credit upon the artist, Mr. G. IT. Barrow, 
of the Australhm Museum. 
I cannot conclude without a tribute to the memory of my lamented 
friend and predecessor in office, the late Mr. C. S. 'Wilkinson, E.G.S., E.L.S., 
under whose direction the previous numbers of this Series were published. 
