Vll 
ETTEP^^ 
OF 
RANSMITTAL, 
Department of Mines and Ai^ricnltnre, 
Sydney, 2nd January, 190C. 
Sir, 
I hove the honour to snhmit for pnhlication Part I of Volume II 
of a Monograph (No. 5 of the Paloeontological Series) on tlie “Carboniferous 
and Fermo-Carbonferous Invertebrataf by ]\Ir. Robert Etheridge, J.P., 
Curator of the Australian Mnsenra, and Mr. W. S. Dun, Paheontologist to 
the Geological Survey Branch of this Department. 
Volume II deals with tlu' Pelccypoda, and this Part describes the 
Palmopectens occurring in the so-far unproductive Carboniferous rocks and 
in the Marine beds of our productive Coal Measures. 
The description of the fossil forms of these two rock Systems is of 
very great importance, not only from a general scientific point of view, hut 
also as an aid to the geologists of this Department Avho are engaged in 
Avorking out tlie relations and limits of the respective Eormations. 
I have the honour to l)e, 
Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
EDWARD E. PITTMAN, 
Government Geologist and Under Secretary. 
The Honourable S. AV. Moore, jM.P., 
Minister for Mines and Agriculture. 
